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To: Jeff Lins who wrote (8939)	11/12/1998 1:24:00 AM
From: Patrick Grinsell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

Serious OEM competition for Banshee... ***Trident Announces Blade 3D Chip (November 11) Trident Microsystems introduced the Blade 3D, media accelerator. The new device provides advanced 3D features for the sub-$1,000 and above PCs. Specifications include: The 3D-triangle peak rate is 2.5 million triangles per second(with back face culling); The maximum fill rate is 110 Million pixels per second. Direct3D DX6.0 Anisotropic plus Trilinear texture filtering as well as compressed texture format DXT1 and DXT2. MIP Mapping with 11 levels of detail (LOD) calculations and perspective correction, and performs color keying for translucency. true color 32-bit rendering with per pixel complexity and 1/16th sub-pixel precision. Open GL compliance with blending for fog and depth queuing. a 4 Kbytes-texture cache that is claimed to provide over 90% hit rates and, along with multiple buffering and page flipping. THAMA DVDPlayback (Trident Hardware Assisted MPEG2/AC3), working with the Mediamatics and the software-only DVD playback from Cyberlink. The Blade 3D, produced in a .25 Micron process, will be available in Q1, 1999 for $17.00 in quantities of 10K. Pat's Comments: The price makes this device serious competition. Banshee performance at almost half the price. Thank god for branding. Pat

To: Jeff Lins who wrote (8939)	11/12/1998 1:33:00 AM
From: Patrick Grinsell	Respond to of 16960

Further evidence of set-top entry for 3dfx? 913.5 Test Equipment ***3Dfx Selects LTX for Testing Graphics Accelerator Chipsets (November 2) LTX announced that 3Dfx Interactive has selected LTX as its automatic test equipment supplier of choice. The Fusion HF and Delta STE have been selected to test 3Dfx's Banshee and Voodoo family of accelerator chipsets. Fusion HF, configurable with up to 1024 500MHz I/O digital channels offers a system-on-a-chip solution with digital VLSI, embedded memory, and mixed signal test capability in one platform. Its suite of instruments provides enabling test technology for the advanced functions being embedded in system- on-a-chip devices. With its ability to test the complete spectrum of semiconductors, Fusion also significantly improves tester utilization. Fusion is powered by enVision++, a programming environment that combines reusable, object-oriented digital programming with highly flexible mixed signal test development. Pat's Comments: Testing for system-on-a-chip devices? Anybody else have a different read on this? I'm not exactly sure what this thing does. Pat