Subj: 3Dlabs Announces Continuing GLINT GMX Design Wins
Date: 98-07-01 08:54:58 EDT
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3Dlabs Announces Continuing GLINT GMX Design Wins
Tri-Star and UMAX Use GLINT GMX Based-ELSA GLoria-XXL to Deliver Hardware Geometry Acceleration and Real-Time Rendering in New Windows NT
Workstations
SAN JOSE, Calif., July 1 /PRNewswire/ -- 3Dlabs(R), Inc. (Nasdaq: TDDDF) today announced that both Tri-Star Computer (Phoenix, AZ) and UMAX(R) Data Systems, Inc. (Taipei, Taiwan) have chosen to incorporate the GLINT(R) GMX 1000 chipset in their latest workstations offerings. Tri-Star Computer will include the GLINT GMX-based GLoria(TM)-XXL from ELSA, Inc. (Santa Clara, CA) as one of the graphics accelerator options for its wide selection of Windows NT(R) workstations. Additionally, UMAX Data Systems will integrate the GLoria-XXL in Tekstation, a new workstation powered by dual Intel(R) Pentium(R) II Xeon(TM) 400MHz processors.
Based on the GLINT GMX 1000 chipset -- which includes the GLINT Gamma hardwired geometry processor -- the ELSA GLoria-XXL is capable of accelerating up to 3.3 million polygons-per-second with full geometry and lighting calculation. This most recent addition to the ELSA's award-winning GLoria family is configured with 16MB of VRAM and up to 40MB of EDO RAM local texture memory. The GLoria-XXL also enables true-color screen resolution of up to 1920 x 1200 with high-precision 32-bit Z-buffering.
Taking advantage of a dedicated geometry processing engine, the ELSA GLoria-XXL significantly increases the performance of many professional applications running on Intel Pentium II-based workstations. For example, the GLoria-XXL in a Pentium II 400MHz system achieves a Composite Viewperf score (Endnote*) of 15.23, close to 200 percent above ELSA's previous offering and other competitive products. The GLINT GMX-based GLoria-XXL also finishes up to four times faster than the GLoria-XL when running certain operations using 3D Studio MAX(R).
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"The combination of hardwired geometry processing and high-speed rendering in GLINT GMX 1000 enable Tri-Star and UMAX workstation customers using the ELSA GLoria-XXL to experience unprecedented levels of interactivity in 3D applications," said Neil Trevett, vice president of marketing at 3Dlabs. "Tri-Star has in-depth knowledge of the high-end 3D workstation market and UMAX has many years of experience in the computer imaging arena; their selection of the GLoria-XXL card confirms that GLINT GMX technology is delivering outstanding performance to the professional graphics community."
"ELSA is pleased to continue our close partnership with 3Dlabs to deliver high-performance acceleration to our OEM customers such as Tri-Star and UMAX," said Thomas Neubert, vice president of sales and marketing at ELSA. "Professional users will now be able to manipulate high-complexity models using the power of workstation applications such as Solidworks, Maya, SoftImage 3D and Pro/ENGINEER through 3Dlabs' GLINT Gamma technology and ELSA's customized software drivers."
"With breakthrough graphics technology such as the GLINT Gamma, Tri-Star can offer hardware geometry acceleration to professional high-end graphics users," said Thomas W. Larkin, president and CEO of Tri-Star Computer. "The impressive performance of 3Dlabs' latest chipset and ELSA's strength in customized software drivers provides leading-edge technology in the CAD/CAM/CAE and 3D animation markets."
"UMAX always looks for state-of-the-art technology such as the GLINT GMX chipset to be incorporated into our products," said Alpha Tsai, assistant vice-president of system marketing at UMAX Data Systems, Inc. "We believe that the GLINT GMX-based GLoria-XXL will be able to provide high-quality 3D acceleration to our customers who seek best total system performance."
GLINT GMX Product Information
GLINT GMX is the first Windows NT workstation graphics chipset to combine the bandwidth of AGP with the GLINT Gamma hardwired geometry and lighting processor to significantly boost application performance under Microsoft(R) Windows NT.
GLINT GMX integrates 3D geometry and lighting acceleration, scaleable 2D and 3D rasterization processing and SVGA functionality into a seamless workstation graphics solution. GLINT GMX 1000 processes up to 3 million, 10 pixel, 3D vectors per second, 3.3 million polygons per second (25 pixel, 50% backface removed) and renders up to 33 million texture-mapped, mip-mapped pixels per second.
GLINT GMX supports high-definition displays up to HDTV or 2000 x 2000 resolutions at true color, large texture memories up to 48Mbytes, and deep 32- bit color and Z-buffers. The chipset also accelerates 100% of OpenGL 1.1 geometry, lighting and rasterization operations in silicon - including support for 16 light sources, Gouraud shading, per-pixel texture mip-mapping, tri- linear texture filtering, anti-aliasing, multi-plane stenciling and alpha blending with destination alpha support.
About 3Dlabs
Founded in 1994, 3Dlabs is a leading innovator and a fabless supplier of high-performance graphics semiconductors, software and related technologies designed to bring cost-effective 2D and 3D graphics to the personal computer. The Company has introduced eight 3D graphics processors over the last four years with price, performance and functionality designed to meet the demand for 3D on the PC, ranging from low-cost consumer to high-end workstation market segments.
The Company markets and sells its award-winning merchant 3D graphics processors to PC and graphics board OEM customers and selectively licenses its embeddable graphics processor cores on a royalty-bearing basis to strategic technology partners. Companies using 3Dlabs' graphics processors in their systems include Acer, Compaq, Core, Dell, Digital Equipment Corporation, Fujitsu, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM, MaxVision, Micron, NEC, NTSI, Siemens Nixdorf and TriStar. Leading board vendors using 3Dlabs' graphics processors include AccelGraphics, Creative Labs, Diamond Multimedia, ELSA, Hercules, Leadtek, Omnicomp and STB Systems.
For more information on 3Dlabs and its products, please visit our Web site at 3dlabs.com.
Various matters set forth in this press release, such as statements relating to: the performance characteristics, product features, and competitive positioning of GLINT Gamma and GLINT GMX are forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, including without limitation, the ability of the Company's manufacturing partners to produce products in a timely and cost effective manner and in sufficient quantities; the ability of the Company to obtain and keep design wins for these products; the ability of the Company's products to adequately meet the price/performance requirements of its customers; the success of the Company's customers in achieving sustained demand for systems incorporating the Company's current and future products; the impact and pricing of competitive products; the introduction of alternative technological advances and other risks detailed from time-to-time in 3Dlabs' SEC reports.
3Dlabs, GLINT and PERMEDIA are registered trademarks and GLINT Gamma, GLINT GMX and GLINT DMX are trademarks of 3Dlabs Inc. Ltd. Microsoft, Windows and Windows NT are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries. Pentium is a registered trademark of Intel Corporation. OpenGL is a registered trademark of Silicon Graphics, Inc. All other trademarks are acknowledged and recognized.
(Endnote*) Composite Viewperf is not officially ratified by the OPC but is weighted geometric mean of the 5 Viewperf dataset.
SOURCE 3Dlabs, Inc.
CO: 3Dlabs, Inc.; Tri-Star Computer; UMAX Data Systems, Inc.
ST: California, Arizona, Taiwan
IN: CPR
SU: CON
07/01/98 08:49 EDT prnewswire.com
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