This company aimed to produce a workstation system with enough performance to be a serious threat to the Titan, and at a lower price. Ardent responded by starting work on a new desktop system called Stiletto, which featured two MIPS R3000s (paired with two R3010 FPUs) and four i860s for graphics processing (the i860s replaced the vector units).
Ardent aimed to develop a workstation system that would rival the Titan's performance at a lower price point. In response, they began designing a new desktop system called Stiletto, featuring two MIPS R3000 processors paired with two R3010 FPUs and four i860s for graphics processing.