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Monday November 23, 10:00 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: 3Dlabs, Inc.
3Dlabs Oxygen GMX Selected for Dell Precision
WorkStations
Oxygen GMX Board Is the New Order-Ready High-End Professional Graphics Option For Dell Precision
610 and 410 WorkStations; Design Win Illustrates 3Dlabs' Technical and Manufacturing Excellence in 3D
Technology
SUNNYVALE, Calif., Nov. 23 /PRNewswire/ -- 3Dlabs®, Inc. (Nasdaq: TDDDF - news) today announced that Dell Computer Corporation (Round
Rock, TX) (Nasdaq: DELL - news) has selected the award-winning 3Dlabs Oxygen™ GMX graphics accelerator board as the order-ready high
performance, top-of-the-line graphics option in the Dell Precision™ 410 and Dell Precision 610 WorkStations. The highly- integrated geometry and
rasterization technology of the Oxygen GMX delivers the required level of cost-effective performance that has enabled Dell to become a
price/performance leader in the workstation market.
''The selection of Oxygen GMX by an industry leader such as Dell validates 3Dlabs' decision to enter the graphics board business. The vertical
integration of silicon, board and driver engineering development in one company enables 3Dlabs to quickly respond to our customers' needs and align
our strategy to meet their long-term goals,'' said Neil Trevett, vice president of workstation products. ''We look forward to a successful alliance with
Dell to bring state-of-the-art graphics acceleration technology to the Windows NT® workstation market.''
Oxygen GMX is the latest high-end member of the Oxygen family of 3D graphics accelerator boards for Windows NT workstations. Based on 3Dlabs'
GLINT® GMX 2000 chipset, Oxygen GMX accelerates the complete OpenGL® geometry, lighting, and rasterization pipeline on a single AGP card.
The on- board GLINT Gamma geometry processor provides 2Gflops of processing power to boost the interactivity of complex models and scenes by
up to 400%.
The Oxygen GMX card provides industry-leading performance, including a Viewperf CDRS-03 score of 131 and a Pro/Engineer v19 gBench98
weighted graphics total score of 24 when measured on a Dell Precision 610 WorkStation with a CPU speed of 450MHz.
The Dell Precision 610 can be custom-configured with single or dual 400 or 450 MHz Intel® Pentium® II Xeon™ processors; the Dell Precision 410
can be custom-configured with single or dual 350, 400, or 450MHz Pentium II processors. Both systems feature AGP 2X support for higher data
transfer rate needed for graphics-intensive software, including animation, CAD/CAM/CAE, financial modeling, electronic design automation, and
digital content creation applications.
Oxygen GMX Technical Specifications
Oxygen GMX has a peak geometry throughput of 3.3 million lit, transformed polygons-per-second (50% backface removed, Gouraud-shaded, 32-bit
color and Z) and delivers up to 66 million mip-mapped pixels-per-second fill rates. Oxygen GMX performs high-precision, sub-pixel accurate
rendering, including full 32-bit Z-buffering. With 96MB of on-board memory Oxygen GMX supports true- color high-resolution displays up to 1920 x
1080 with over 24MB of available local texture storage. Oxygen GMX has been shipping since September 1998.
About 3Dlabs
Founded in 1994, 3Dlabs is a leading innovator and a fabless supplier of high-performance graphics semiconductors, accelerator boards, software and
related technologies designed to bring cost-effective 2D and 3D graphics to the personal computer. The Company has introduced eleven 3D graphics
processors and accelerator boards 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 its award-winning merchant 3D graphics processors and boards to PC and graphics 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, Dell, Digital Equipment Corporation, Fujitsu, Gateway, Hewlett-Packard, Hitachi, IBM, Micron, NEC, Siemens
Nixdorf, and Tri-Star. Leading card vendors using 3Dlabs' graphics processors include AccelGraphics, Appian Graphics, Creative Labs, Diamond
Multimedia, ELSA, Hercules, Leadtek, and Omnicomp.
For more information on 3Dlabs and its products, please visit our Web site at www.3dlabs.com or call toll-free (800) 464-3348.
Forward Looking Statement
Various matters set forth in this press release, such as statements relating to the performance characteristics, specifications, and market position of
Oxygen GMX are forward-looking statements. These statements are subject to risks and uncertainties, including without limitation, 3Dlabs' ability to
manufacture, produce and deliver Oxygen GMX in a timely, cost-effective and commercially-viable manner; the ability of 3Dlabs to obtain and keep
design wins for Oxygen GMX; the ability of Oxygen GMX or systems incorporating Oxygen GMX to adequately meet the price/performance
requirements of its customers; the success of Dell in achieving sustained demand for systems incorporating Oxygen GMX as an graphics option; 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, Oxygen, PERMEDIA, and PowerThreads are either trademarks or registered trademarks of 3Dlabs, Inc. and/or 3Dlabs, Inc. Ltd. Dell
is a registered trademark and Dell Precision is a trademark of Dell Computer Corporation. Windows NT is a registered trademark of Microsoft
Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. OpenGL is a registered trademark of Silicon Graphics, Inc. All other trademarks are
acknowledged and recognized.
SOURCE: 3Dlabs, Inc.
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