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To: Thomas A Watson who wrote (5455)	1/4/1999 10:34:00 AM
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InformationWeek Daily 01/04/99 Silicon Graphics Inc. will finally introduce its first Windows NT workstations next week. Silicon Graphics will sell the machines, which were originally scheduled for the fourth quarter of last year, on a build-to-order basis. Silicon Graphics' Visual Workstation 320 with a 400-MHz Pentium II will start at around $3,995. It will also be available with dual processors. The high-end 540 model, starting at around $5,995, will ship with a 450-MHz Xeon processor and will be available with up to four Xeon processors. SGI has duplicated components in its high-performance Unix machines for the NT market. "The result is an extremely fast system at an extremely competitive price," says Jon Peddie, a Tiburon, Calif., researcher on graphics technologies. Other vendors use specialized graphics chips, known as graphics subsystems, to give workstations their powerful rendering capabilities. But Silicon Graphics' cheapest NT workstations eliminate these components and instead incorporate graphics capabilities into their core-logic chipsets, which route data between the CPU and memory. This cuts costs while boosting performance, says Peddie. Silicon Graphics' high-performance NT workstations will incorporate both technologies. --Tom Davey