Out in Front: July 4, 1996

Intergraph has announced new 3-D workstations and the first availability of its internally developed 3-D graphics engines on the open market. The PCI-based Intense 3-D card for Pentium and Pentium Pro systems can render 810,000 25-pixel, Gouraud-shaded triangles/sec. Moreover, the card offers an OpenGL software interface that ensures compatibility with leading 3-D applications. The base card costs $2499, and texture-memory and geometry-accelerator options can double that price. The new workstations extend the company's TDZ family with an even more powerful RealiZm 3-D accelerator that can render 1.2 million triangles/sec. Workstation prices start at $9995 for a 200-MHz Pentium Pro system with 32 Mbytes of RAM and a 1-Gbyte disk.

—by Maury Wright

Intergraph Computer Systems, Huntsville, AL, (800) 763-0242.