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To: thedewar who wrote (586)	3/11/1998 7:47:00 AM
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News: Notebooks With NeoMagic(R) Multimedia Accelerators Take Top Honors Portable PCs With MagicGraph(R)128 Accelerators Win Awards From Mobile Insights and Mobile Computing SANTA CLARA, Calif., March 11 /PRNewswire/ -- NeoMagic Corporation (Nasdaq: NMGC - news), the pioneer of embedded DRAM and the world's first producer of a 128-bit single-chip multimedia accelerator for notebook computers, today announced that five notebooks honored last week at the Mobile Insights Conference in Pasadena, Calif., and two of the notebooks named to receive First Class Awards in the March issue of Mobile Computing & Communications incorporate the MagicGraph128 family of multimedia accelerators. The Mobile Insights Mobility Award winners and their respective categories follow: Compaq Presario 1680 in ''Consumer Portable,'' Dell Latitude CP in ''Value Notebook,'' IBM ThinkPad 380 in ''All-in-One (3-spindle),'' IBM ThinkPad 560X in ''Ultraportable,'' and Sony VAIO family of notebook PCs in ''Rookie of the Year.'' Mobile Computing & Communications in its March 1998 issue picked the Gateway 2000's Solo 2300 and Dell's Inspiron 3000 M200ST to receive their First Class Award. ''The Solo 2300 provides one of the greatest mixes of performance, compatibility, expandability and battery life that we've seen in a notebook,'' reported the award announcement. Reporting on the Dell Inspiron, the announcement stated ''its multimedia numbers took top honors in every test.'' The MagicGraph128 multimedia solution delivers 2 MB of embedded DRAM with high-performance 128-bit acceleration in a single chip. By integrating memory, logic, and analog functions on a single chip, NeoMagic achieves high performance and low power consumption in a small form factor. Other solutions typically require five chips -- four DRAM memory chips and a multimedia controller chip -- to deliver 64-bit performance. NeoMagic's embedded DRAM solution delivers higher performance than the five-chip solution by implementing a 128-bit wide memory architecture to the embedded DRAM. On-chip memory access is always faster than going on and off a chip to access DRAM. This solution also extends battery life by saving as much as 1.5 to 2 watts over multichip solutions and reduces the board space requirements by as much as three square inches.