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To: VICTORIA GATE, MD who wrote (68152)	11/9/1998 8:15:00 PM
From: Tony Viola	Respond to of 186894

Intel investors: SGI Pentium II and Xeon based workstations. Will they have enough differentiators from SGI to set them apart and help them sell? infoworld.com SGI's first NT workstations now due in January By Terho Uimonen InfoWorld Electric Posted at 8:54 AM PT, Nov 6, 1998 Eager users waiting to get their hands on Silicon Graphics' first workstations powered by Intel processors and running Microsoft's Windows NT operating system will have to wait until early next year, industry sources said this week. SGI said earlier that the new workstations would be introduced before year's end, but the launch has now been delayed until January, the sources said. The company has already taken prototypes of the systems on a roadshow, giving live demonstrations to its key partners, they added. For heavy-duty graphics designers, SGI's NT workstations may well be worth the wait, said one source who has seen a working system demonstration. "It certainly looked fast -- faster than any NT workstation I have ever seen," said the source, who requested anonymity. Although powered by Intel's Pentium II and Pentium II Xeon processors, the workstations will also feature proprietary SGI technology that adds punch to the systems, the sources said. Both the high-end Xeon-powered series and the cheaper Pentium II-powered series, will feature SGI's in-house developed integrated graphics chip set, which allows for a 256-bit-wide memory bus with up to 3.2Gbps of graphics memory bandwidth. Silicon Graphics Inc., in Mountain View, Calif., can be reached at www.sgi.com. Terho Uimonen is a correspondent in the Taipei, Taiwan, bureau of the IDG News Service, an InfoWorld affiliate.