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To: Jim Davison who wrote (6177)	6/30/1999 3:37:00 PM
From: miklosh	Respond to of 14451

Intel and SGI Announce Agreement to Optimize OpenGL API for Current and Future Intel Architecture Platforms BURLINGAME, Calif., June 30 /PRNewswire/ -- At Intel Corporation's (Nasdaq: INTC - news) Workstation Leadership Forum, Intel and SGI (NYSE: SGI - news) today announced plans to work together to optimize the OpenGL® API for advanced 3D graphics and data visualization workstations based on Intel Architecture (IA). This joint effort is expected to dramatically increase the performance and visualization capabilities of IA-based workstations, utilizing OpenGL API graphics, from entry-level to the highest-end platforms. Initially, this agreement combines Intel's leading-edge technology Internet Streaming SIMD extensions, which deliver enhanced 3D graphic visualization, improved video and animation capabilities with SGI's industry-standard OpenGL API. Future Intel optimizations will focus on enhancing key components of the OpenGL pipeline and providing those optimizations back to SGI for broad distribution to OpenGL licensees. OpenGL is the current standard API for high-performance 3D graphics and visualization applications and is licensed and available by every operating system and major hardware vendor, including Intel. A robust and mature 3D software library that offers a broad set of rendering, texture mapping, special effects, and other visualization functions, OpenGL is recognized as a leading-edge 3D graphics API. OpenGL is positioned to take advantage of the continuing evolution of graphics hardware, resulting in improved productivity to end users through better data visualization. According to Anand Chandrasekher, General Manager of Intel's Workstation Products Group, ''This agreement builds on the already productive efforts between Intel and SGI to deliver leadership products to the workstation marketplace. Our combined efforts should result in the industry enjoying even more rapid performance improvement of graphics performance and visualization capabilities on IA-based workstations.'' ''We are pleased to see Intel optimizing this powerful and pervasive graphics tool for microprocessor execution,'' said Kurt Akeley, vice president and chief engineer for SGI. ''This joint effort between SGI and Intel will result in consumers getting the maximum visualization performance of OpenGL applications on Intel-based systems.'' Hardware and software workstation vendors as well as users will benefit from the improved performance and capabilities on Intel Architecture workstations. The work between SGI and Intel will include optimization of OpenGL for workstations based on the current Intel Pentium® III and Pentium III Xeon(TM) processors, as well as future IA32 and IA64 processors.

To: Jim Davison who wrote (6177)	6/30/1999 4:02:00 PM
From: opalapril	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14451

Huh. Thanks. (But tell me -- isn't it arrogant in itself to assume that merely by changing one's name one can fool others into thinking you're not arrogant?)