The Egham, Surrey-based 3DLabs Ltd this week reveals the full list of all the board and software vendors it has signed for its GLiNT chips, which it expects IBM Microelectronics to start delivering any day now. Fremont, California-based Aires Research Inc is planning to build an SBus graphics board around the chip’s Solaris 2.4 drivers for Sparc boxes. Aries believes it can bring in a graphics board at a fraction of cost of Sun Microsystem Inc’s XZ, by the middle of next year. The board will also come with a Peripheral Component Interconnect bus for Intel Corp systems, and also with Solaris 2.4 driver. Both boards will include 4Mb of video RAM. Barco Chromatics is going to include HP-UX, HP-RT-X/PEX drivers for HP 74X-based systems, OSF/1, X/PEX drivers for Alpha systems and Solaris-X/PEX driver for Sparc systems on a line of display generators using 6U VME form factors that will be part of its Integrated Visualization System. Barco says it will add OpenGL support some time next year. On the software side, 3DLabs has signed up Toronto, Canada-based X Inside Inc to design interfaces for its Accelerated-X server software for personal computers operating as X Window terminals.
