McMannic - Re: "SSE will have about the same effect as MMX. Looks good but the apps aren't there."
Oh yeah?
And here's a few MORE Pentium III SSE applications that ARE THERE !
Paul
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Wednesday March 17, 11:29 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
LightWorks 3D Rendering in PhotoWorks for SolidWorks Demonstrated with Intel Pentium III Xeon Processor
SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 17, 1999--The benefits of LightWorks® photo-realistic rendering optimized for the Intel® Pentium® III Xeon(TM) processor will be demonstrated by SolidWorks Corporation at today's Intel Pentium III Xeon launch event in San Francisco.
SolidWorks Corporation will demonstrate PhotoWorks(TM) rendering, within SolidWorks®, its leading 3D solid modeling software for Windows®. PhotoWorks, the fully integrated photo-realistic rendering module for SolidWorks, is based on the LightWorks rendering engine from LightWork Design.
''SolidWorks' customer, Scorpion Recreational Products, creates photo-realistic images of high-performance snowmobiles using PhotoWorks, a fully integrated rendering product based on technology from our Gold Partner, LightWork Design,'' states Robert McGill, manager of SolidWorks' Partner Program. ''When rendering materials like cast aluminum, dramatic improvements in rendering performance are made possible by the new graphical capabilities of the Pentium III Xeon processor. Scorpion has designed the entire snowmobile using SolidWorks and has successfully generated funding and market awareness with the dramatic, life-like images created using PhotoWorks.''
About LightWork Design
LightWork Design is the leading supplier of rendering engines for 3D design software applications. The LightWorks rendering engine is used in more than 70 software applications worldwide, representing hundreds of thousands of 3D software users. The company has a global customer base that encompasses North America, Europe and Japan. LightWork Design's corporate headquarters are in the United Kingdom. The company has a U.S. subsidiary in Walnut Creek, California, and sales representation in Japan. The company's Web site is lightwork.com.
About SolidWorks Corporation
SolidWorks Corporation, a Dassault Systemes S.A. (NASDAQ:DASTY - news) company, develops and markets mechanical design software products for Windows®. SolidWorks was founded in 1993 with the mission to bring production solid modeling to the desktop of every engineer. SolidWorks has offices worldwide and distributes its products through a network of 200 resellers selling in 43 countries. In three years of shipping product, SolidWorks has sold over 26,000 seats of software to over 9,500 customers. For more information and a product demonstration, contact your local SolidWorks distributor or reseller today. For the latest news and information from SolidWorks, see the company's web site (http://www.solidworks.com).
LightWorks and the LightWorks logo are registered trademarks of LightWork Design Ltd. SolidWorks is a registered trademark and PhotoWorks is a trademark of SolidWorks Corporation. Intel and Pentium are registered trademarks and Xeon is a trademark of Intel Corporation. Windows is a registered trademark of Microsoft Corporation. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
Contact:
LightWork Design Gay Walker Voice: (+44) 114 266 8404 Fax: (+44) 114 266 1383 E-mail: gay.walker@lightwork.com
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Wednesday March 17, 10:30 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: Oracle Corp.
Oracle Leverages Powerful Internet Capabilities of Intel's Pentium III Xeon Processor
Oracle, Vendors Demonstrate Performance Gains at Intel Launch Events
REDWOOD SHORES, Calif., March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Demonstrating its commitment to the Intel Architecture (IA) platform, Oracle Corp. today announced that the Oracle8i(TM) database takes advantage of the new Web-enhancing features of the Intel Pentium III Xeon processor. Through a number of collaborative efforts including an Applications Solution Center (ASC) operated with assistance from Intel, Oracle has worked extensively with Intel engineering teams to optimize performance of both Oracle's core products and those of other Oracle partners taking best advantage of the IA platform and processors.
''We see a natural synergy between Oracle8i, the Internet Database, and the new Intel Pentium III Xeon processor,'' said John Hall, senior vice president of worldwide alliances for Oracle. ''The new instruction sets in the Pentium III Xeon chip help assure Oracle's ISVs that the robust Web-enabled applications they are developing for Oracle8i will run at peak performance.''
Highlighting the harmony between Oracle technology and the Pentium III Xeon processor at today's Intel launch events in San Francisco and New York City were applications from two Oracle ISVs, Extricity Software and Right Now Technologies, a demonstration of Oracle® Applications by Data General and a scalability demo from Sequent:
* Data General demonstrated Oracle Applications R11 Internet Self-Service capabilities on a Data General 16-way AviiON AV 25000 CC: NUMA server; * Extricity showed its product's ability to enable business-to-business connectivity over the Internet, using Oracle Applications R11 and other Oracle-based applications running on a DELL PowerEdge 6300 two-way server; * Right Now Technologies illustrated its Web-based customer service functionality using the Ben & Jerry's Web site and using Oracle8(TM), running on the Micron NetFRAME two-way server (in San Francisco) and the Gateway ALR 7300 two-way server (in New York) and * Sequent highlighted the scalability and performance of the of the Oracle database enabled by the Sequent NUMA-Q 2000 12-way server.
''Intel and Oracle are in a unique position to offer high-performance, affordable server solutions to all market segments, from small and mid-sized companies to global corporations,'' said Mike Pope, Director, Enterprise Software Programs, Intel. ''We believe the cooperation among Intel, Oracle and Oracle ISV partners will continue to bring powerful computing solutions to all markets.''
Since the Oracle ASC opened in October 1998, development teams at the Redwood Shores center have worked with a number of Oracle ISVs to maximize the performance of their applications running on the latest Oracle and Intel products. Portal Software, which provides customer management and billing software to Internet access businesses; next-generation IP-based services such as Internet telephony and virtual private networks (VPNs); and other emerging IP-based consumer and business services, has been working at the ASC to fine-tune its real-time registration, tracking and management features for Oracle8i, and state-of-the-art eight-way NEC Express5800 HV8600 servers.
''The combination of the platform and the tuning provided by the ASC engineers allowed us to improve the performance of Infranet with Oracle on IA from between 200 percent to nearly 600 percent,'' said Dave Labuda, chief technology officer of Portal Software. ''These benefits will extend to our customers that run on Oracle and Intel platforms.''
Oracle Corporation is the world's leading supplier of software for information management, and the world's second largest independent software company. With annual revenues of more than $8.3 billion, the company offers its database, tools and application products, along with related consulting, education, and support services, in more than 145 countries around the world.
For more information about Oracle, please call 650-506-7000. Oracle's Worldwide Web address is (URL) oracle.com.
Trademarks
Oracle is a registered trademark and Oracle8 and Oracle8i are trademarks or registered trademarks of Oracle Corporation. Other names may be trademarks of their respective owners.
SOURCE: Oracle Corp.
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Company Press Release
SOURCE: Microsoft Corp.
Windows Media Technologies Optimized for Intel Pentium III Xeon Processor
Performance and Productivity Boost Enables Streaming Media Content Providers To Lower Costs and Deliver Richer Visual Quality and Realism to End Users
REDMOND, Wash., March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- Microsoft Corp. (Nasdaq: MSFT - news) announced today that its Windows® Media Technologies will be optimized for Intel Corp.'s new Intel Pentium® III Xeon(TM) processor, resulting in significant time and cost savings for content providers and a sharper, smoother visual experience for end users. Microsoft plans for a future release of Windows Media Technologies to contain an updated MPEG 4 video codec that is optimized for the Pentium III Xeon processor.
Faster Encoding Rates Reduce Development Costs
In a business where time directly translates to money, content developers are always looking for ways to increase efficiency. The Pentium III Xeon-optimized MPEG 4 codec in Windows Media Technologies accelerates encoding speed and can encode on-demand video up to 40 percent faster than on the previous-generation Pentium II Xeon chip. In addition, the codec encodes live video at 640 x 480 at a rate of 25 fps on a dual Pentium III Xeon 500 -- a significant increase in performance. This improved encoding performance will help boost productivity and save development time and costs for content developers.
''By optimizing Windows Media Technologies for the Pentium III Xeon processor, we will provide our streaming media customers with dramatic improvements in speed, frame rate and resolution for on-demand and real-time encoding,'' said Tod Nielsen, general manager for developer relations at Microsoft. ''Our new MPEG 4 codec in Windows Media Technologies is optimized to provide content developers with the fastest encoding performance available, resulting in huge cost savings.''
''The combination of Intel's Pentium III Xeon processor with Microsoft's optimized Windows Media Technologies-based MPEG 4 codec will enable companies to deploy scalable, high-performing streaming media solutions,'' said Andre Walper, director of marketing, Intel workstation products group. ''By taking advantage of these two new technologies, content developers will be able to deliver a faster, more compelling streaming media experience.''
New Levels of Visual Quality and Realism for the End User
The MPEG 4 codec optimized for the Pentium III Xeon processor provides higher resolution and frame rates for live encoding, affording end users a much crisper and smoother video experience. Pentium III Xeon processor optimization also boosts decoder and post-filter performance, leaving ample processing power for displaying rich visual data on the client. In addition, Microsoft® Windows Media Technologies software is backward-compatible, allowing the rapidly growing community of over 25 million users of Windows Media Player to view content optimized for the new Pentium III Xeon processor.
Availability
Windows Media Technologies offer best-of-industry streaming-media functionality, with tools for quick and easy preparation of content; integration with security, management and administration features of the Windows NT® Server operating system; and built-in access to online-commerce products. The new MPEG 4 codec, including Intel Pentium III Streaming SIMD Extensions, is scheduled to ship by the end of June. For more information on the Pentium III Xeon-optimized version of Windows Media Technologies, please see microsoft.com.
Founded in 1975, Microsoft is the worldwide leader in software for personal computers. The company offers a wide range of products and services for business and personal use, each designed with the mission of making it easier and more enjoyable for people to take advantage of the full power of personal computing every day.
NOTE: Microsoft, Windows and Windows NT are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries. Other product and company names herein may be trademarks of their respective owners.
SOURCE: Microsoft Corp.
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Wednesday March 17, 9:01 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: 3Dlabs, Inc.
3Dlabs PowerThreads SSE OpenGL Driver Boosts 3D Geometry Performance With Intel's Pentium III Xeon
Multi-Threaded Dynamic Load-Balancing Distributes 3D Geometry and Lighting Processing in Parallel Between Hardware Processors and Multiple Pentium III CPUs for Highest Performance
SUNNYVALE, Calif., March 17 /PRNewswire/ -- 3Dlabs®, Inc. (Nasdaq: TDDDF - news) today announced PowerThreads(TM) SSE, the next-generation OpenGL driver for the 3Dlabs Oxygen(TM) family of high-performance 3D workstation graphics accelerators. PowerThreads SSE transparently leverages the Streaming SIMD (Single Instructions, Multiple Data) Extensions for single or multiple Intel® Pentium® III and Pentium III Xeon(TM) processors in parallel with geometry hardware to deliver the highest possible 3D geometry and lighting performance on current and future Oxygen cards.
The PowerThreads SSE driver will be demonstrated at the CeBIT trade show from March 18 through March 25, 1999 in Hanover, Germany, and is expected to become available in second quarter of 1999 for the Oxygen GMX and the new Oxygen VX1 board, also announced today. Additionally, the driver will be downloadable from 3Dlabs' web site at www.3dlabs.com upon its release for current users of Oxygen GMX.
''3Dlabs has been a pioneer in developing technologies that accelerate the entire 3D graphics pipeline, from geometry and lighting transformations to rasterization. The outstanding geometry performance of the new PowerThreads SSE driver is made possible with the addition of Streaming SIMD Extensions in the Pentium III and Pentium III Xeon processors,'' said Andre Wolper, director of industry marketing, Intel Workstation Products Group. ''The combination of advanced technologies from Intel and 3Dlabs yields a powerful solution for professional graphics workstation users.''
''With PowerThreads SSE, 3Dlabs offers graphics drivers with the industry's most sophisticated handling of frequently-bottlenecked geometry transformations and lighting calculations,'' said Greg Weiss, research analyst of graphics and workstations at D.H. Brown Associates. ''PowerThreads SSE combines the benefits of Pentium III's Streaming SIMD floating point with the unique ability to load-balance those calculations across geometry hardware and multiple CPUs.''
About the PowerThreads SSE OpenGL Driver
PowerThreads SSE is the only complete geometry and lighting solution for Windows NT workstations, combining 3Dlabs' proven multi-threading OpenGL drivers and hardware geometry processing with new SSE-optimized, load-balancing technology that dynamically distributes the geometry and lighting workload in parallel across multiple Pentium III CPUs and on-board hardware geometry processors.
When driving an entry-level graphics accelerator with no on-board geometry processing, the PowerThreads drivers use Streaming SIMD Extensions (SSE) to accelerate geometry transform and lighting calculations on Windows workstations equipped with Pentium III processors. Performance benefits from the SSE optimizations for geometry and lighting limited applications range up to 100%. Additionally, 3Dlabs' proven multi-threaded driver technology incorporated into PowerThreads SSE automatically distributes the geometry and lighting calculations across multiple CPUs for even faster OpenGL performance. A second CPU can boost performance by up to an additional 60%.
When driving a graphics accelerator with an on-board GLINT® Gamma(TM) hardware geometry and lighting processor, PowerThreads SSE performs real-time load balancing between the Gamma and the host CPUs for a dynamically balanced workload distribution for optimal application performance. Due to load balancing, the combination of hardware and CPU processing power is additive and always provides superior performance when compared to CPUs alone. In addition, offloading the geometry load to a hardware processor frees CPU cycles -- resulting in faster application performance.
''3Dlabs has a dedicated software team to leverage the Pentium III so that our existing and future end-users gain maximum benefit from their investment in Intel CPUs and 3Dlabs graphics hardware. Our PowerThreads SSE driver ensures that Oxygen boards continue to provide the highest levels of performance today -- and in the future as CPU speeds increase,'' said Neil Trevett, vice president of workstation products at 3Dlabs. ''3Dlabs is maintaining our aggressive geometry processor roadmap to ensure that on-board geometry processing maintains its performance advantage over the fastest CPUs, and now PowerThreads SSE combines the best of both worlds -- enabling 3Dlabs to be the only vendor to ship a complete, integrated hardware and software geometry processing solution.''
As an example of the power of the PowerThreads SSE drivers, the new $299 Oxygen VX1 card delivers a Viewperf Light-02 score of 1.49 (1280x1024 True-color 60Hz) -- equaling the performance of many boards three times the price. For detailed information on the Oxygen line of graphics accelerators and PowerThreads SSE driver technology, including complete up to date benchmark figures, please visit our Web site at 3dlabs.com or call 3Dlabs directly at (800) 464-3348 or (408) 530-4700.
About 3Dlabs
Founded in 1994, 3Dlabs is a leading innovator and a fabless supplier of high-performance graphics accelerator boards, processors, and software designed to bring cost-effective 3D and 2D graphics to the personal computer. The Company offers a wide range of graphics accelerator boards and processors for desktop PC and high-end workstation markets with price, performance and functionality designed to meet the demand for 3D on the PC. 3Dlabs markets and sells its award-winning products to PC and graphics OEM customers, as well as reseller channel partners.
Forward Looking Statements
Various matters set forth in this press release, such as statements relating to the expected performance, specifications, availability, market acceptance and market position of PowerThreads SSE and the Oxygen line of graphics accelerators, are forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, including without limitation, the Company's ability to manufacture and produce Oxygen cards and PowerThreads drivers in a timely and commercially viable manner; the ability and the willingness of the Company's manufacturing partners to produce Oxygen cards in a timely and cost-effective manner an 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 ability of competitor to develop products and software drivers that meet or exceed the performance of the Company's Oxygen products and PowerThreads SSE drivers; the impact and pricing of competitive products; the introduction of alternative technological advances that exceed the performance of PowerThreads SSE and other risks detailed from time-to-time in 3Dlabs' SEC reports.
3Dlabs, Gamma, GLINT, Oxygen and PowerThreads are either registered trademarks or trademarks of 3Dlabs Inc. Ltd. in the United States and/or other countries. Intel, Pentium and Xeon are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Intel Corporation. OpenGL is a registered trademark of Silicon Graphics, Inc. All other trademarks are acknowledged and recognized.
SOURCE: 3Dlabs, Inc. |
