….. As promised, Intel demonstrated a dual-core processor. An Itanium 2 server from Silicon Graphics Inc. was shown running a weather modeling application on Montecito, Intel’s previously disclosed dual-core Itanium 2 processor. Montecito is due in 2005. ……
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MONTREAL, Sept. 6 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Discreet, a division of Autodesk, Inc. (Nasdaq: ADSK – News) today announced major sales wins to companies doing high-definition (HD) and digital intermediate (DI) post-production and graphics work in the Asia Pacific region. Discreet is addressing the region’s changing broadcast and film market needs by providing influential broadcasters and post-production facilities with HD and DI editing, visual effects and colour grading solutions. Discreet’s recent sales in the Asia Pacific market mirror the global growth of the digital content creation industry and its need for high-end software-based systems.
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Mountain View, CA; August 18, 2004 — To create new and differentiated eye-popping broadcast graphics throughout its coverage in Athens, NBC, for its fifth Olympic Games broadcast in a row, has chosen SGI visualization systems, including Silicon Graphics Tezro, the most powerful visual workstation Silicon Graphics has created to date.
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MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif., Aug. 16 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Just as the 2004 Summer Olympic Games commence, the Foundation of the Hellenic World (FHW) — a not-for-profit cultural institution in Athens, Greece — has expanded its permanent virtual exhibits by opening an immersive 3D virtual reality (VR) tour of the ancient city of Olympia, created on and powered by a selection of high-performance visualization systems from Silicon Graphics (NYSE: SGI). At Hellenic Cosmos, FHW’s innovative cultural center/museum located in Athens’ Tavros district, the new tour driven by an SGI(R) Onyx2(R) visualization system allows visitors to explore the history of 30-plus temples and secular buildings of ancient Olympia, the birthplace of the Olympic Games and the site of the first athletic event (a foot race) held in 776 BC.
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To cover the ongoing Athens Olympic Games, Danish Broadcasting purchased a broadcast system from Silicon Graphics.
This allows its sports and news teams to work with a smaller clone extension of the complete digital workflow environment they use in Copenhagen. Danish Broadcasting whose newsroom of tomorrow was designed by SGI to meet its specifications for a digital workflow regardless of location, conceived the idea of a “digital TV station in a box” last October as it began preparations for Olympics coverage.
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