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Famous graphics chips: HP’s Artist Graphics

  In 1993, facing heavy competition from Sun, HP set the design goal for its new 32-bit HP 9000/712 workstation to reach performance levels of 1992-era workstations and servers at a fraction of their fabrication costs. Their target was the earlier generation HP 9000/735. To accomplish that HP employed VLSI technologies for the processor components, which were state of the ...

Jon Peddie

  In 1993, facing heavy competition from Sun, HP set the design goal for its new 32-bit HP 9000/712 workstation to reach performance levels of 1992-era workstations and servers at a fraction of their fabrication costs. Their target was the earlier generation HP 9000/735. To accomplish that HP employed VLSI technologies for the processor components, which were state of the art at the time. What they came up with was the heart of the system: the famous PA-RISC CPU and its equally impressive coprocessor was the Artist chip to replace the CRX window accelerator add-in board (AIB). That board marked
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