Ed McCracken, chairman and chief executive of Silicon Graphics Inc, says he expects sales of the newly launch Indigo2 Impact workstation (CI No 2,703) to double those of the current Indigo2 line to reach $1,000m by June 1996. Total workstation sales topped $1,500m last year, representing 40% of net sales he said. Discreet Logic Ltd UK, one of a band of 15 software developers involved in the development of the Impact Line said The new workstations will speed up the interactive front-end. Marc Dando, the company’s managing director pointed out that the Impact machines would simply make the graphics run faster on its Flint low-end special effects software. It is not yet sufficiently powerful to run the real-time video effects in our high-end Flame software, we still need Onyx workstations for that, he said. Dando said Discreet Logic was very closely involved in ensuring the new machines were capable of handling the low-level special effect software the firm produces, which is exclusively written for Silicon Graphics workstations. The company itself has 250 Onyx and 300 Indigo2 Impact machines and claims to be Silicon Graphics’ largest global reseller.
