McMannic - Re: "SSE will have about the same effect as MMX. Looks good but the apps aren't there."
Oh yeah?
Well here's another BUNCH of Pentium III SSE applications that ARE THERE !
Paul
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Friday March 26, 4:35 pm Eastern Time
Company Press Release
CITYINTERACTIVE AND INTEL Create a Better Internet Experience for Pentium III Owners With -ULTIMATE COUNTDOWN-
TORONTO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 26, 1999--CityInteractive, a leading supplier of online entertainment and Intel launch ''The Ultimate Countdown'' a site optimized for Intel's new Pentium III processor-based PC users.
CityInteractive, the new media division of CHUM Ltd. puts a new spin on an old classic. Take a weekly Top 30, add music, voting and games...and you've got a hit web site! With regular updates and new music content every
week, this ''mother of all interactive music experiences'' is available online at muchmusic.com, and intel.com/ca.
The Ultimate Countdown draws from the resources of ''the world's most interactive music video channel'', MuchMusic. Guess what the artist will say in the ''Whadda Ya' Say'' online game. Play ''Ultimate Trivia'', or tell us who YOU think should be No. 1 in the Interactive Top 5. Each featured artist has their own Spotlight. Listen to samples of their latest hits online!
''We're making a leap forward in online entertainment with Intel and Pentium III,'' said CityInteractive General Manager, Josh Raphaelson. ''PIII users will enjoy our music, movies and games with even more speed and excitement.''
''Web sites optimized for Intel's new Pentium III processor are more dynamic and visual'' said Doug Cooper, Marketing Manager, Intel of Canada, ''just what you'd expect from CityInteractive and MuchMusic''.
The Ultimate Countdown is the latest example of CityInteractive's strategy to work with leading firms like Intel to reach new audiences on the Internet through new technology and syndicated web content. An established leader in interactive broadcasting and ''convergence'' programming, CityInteractive is extending its worldwide reach through several new strategic alliances with AOL, Microsoft and others.
CityInteractive, established in 1994, applies CHUM Television's unique style of presentation to the Internet, online services and multimedia, emphasizing ''true interactivity'' with high levels of participation. CityInteractive is accessible on the Internet at www.cityinteractive.com, www.muchmusic.com and www.citytv.com and on AOL (Keywords: ''Much'' and ''Citytv'').
CHUM Television is a division of CHUM Limited, one of Canada's foremost broadcasting companies and program providers. In addition to its international joint ventures and partnerships in the U.S., Europe and Latin America, CHUM currently owns and operates 24 radio stations, six local television stations and eight Canadian
specialty channels, including MuchMusic, MuchMoreMusic, Bravo! - Canada's NewStyleArtsChannel, Space - The Imagination Station, Access - The Education Station, MusiquePlus (50%), MusiMax (50%) and CablePulse24, Canada's first 24-hour local and regional news service. Uniquely branded programming produced by Citytv and MuchMusic, including FT:FashionTelevision, MovieTelevision, Ooh La La, MediaTelevision and The NewMusic amoung others is distributed internationally and can be seen in over 130 countries.
Contact:
CityInteractive, Toronto Josh Raphaelson and David Hutchinson 416/591-7400 ext. 2829 {=====================================} Company Press Release
SOURCE: RealNetworks, Inc.
RealNetworks' RealPlayer G2 Chosen for Intel(R) WebOutfitter(SM) Service
RealPlayer G2 Provides Intel Pentium III(R) Processor Owners With Instant Access to Broadest Range of Streaming Media Programming on the Web
SEATTLE, March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- RealNetworks Inc., (Nasdaq: RNWK - news), the recognized leader in streaming media, today announced that RealPlayer G2(TM) will be distributed as the premier streaming media player with the Intel® WebOutfitter(SM) Service. The Intel WebOutfitter Service is a new service for Intel Pentium® III processor owners that provides cutting-edge content, software, tools, and information designed to maximize the Internet experience. RealNetworks recently announced optimizations of RealPlayer G2 for Intel Pentium III processors, providing consumers with new levels of rich streaming media programming.
''We're delighted that Intel has chosen to include RealPlayer G2 on the Intel WebOutfitter Service CD's being distributed to new Intel Pentium III processor owners,'' said Maria Cantwell, senior vice president, Consumer and E-Commerce Division, RealNetworks, Inc. ''This gives Pentium III users instant access to the most popular streaming media content on the Web.''
RealNetworks RealPlayer G2 will be bundled with the Intel WebOutfitter Service CD-ROMs, and will also be available for free download to registered Intel Pentium III processor owners. The new service will make it easier than ever before for Pentium III processor owners to enjoy dynamic audio and video streaming technology.
RealSystem Market Leadership
There are now more than 57 million registered unique users of RealPlayer®, allowing the RealPlayer to enjoy the largest absolute growth of any consumer desktop application in 1998, according to Media Metrix. Actual usage of RealPlayer has also grown dramatically, with Media Metrix reporting that the number of unduplicated home users in the US climbed by more than 300% to 15.5 million in December 1998, compared to 3.5 million consumers who used the RealPlayer in December 1997.
RealNetworks maintains a more than 85% share of the streaming media market. More than 85% of all Web pages on the Internet using streaming media use industry leading RealAudio, RealVideo, RealFlash(TM), RealText(TM) or RealPix(TM), and more than 300,000 hours of live RealAudio and RealVideo programming are available each week (Source: Hotbot).
About RealNetworks
RealNetworks, Inc., based in Seattle, WA, is the recognized leader in the streaming media market. It develops and markets software products and services designed to enable users of personal computers and other consumer electronic devices to send and receive audio, video and other multimedia services using the Web. RealNetworks can be found on the World Wide Web at www.real.com.
For more information about the Intel WebOutfitter Service, please visit Intel Corporation at: intel.com.
NOTE: RealNetworks, RealGuide, RealPlayer, RealAudio, RealVideo, RealText, and RealPix are trademarks or registered trademarks of RealNetworks, Inc. All other companies or products listed herein are trademarks or registered trademarks of their respective owners. RealFlash is a trademark of Macromedia, Inc. and RealNetworks, Inc. Macromedia and Flash are registered trademarks of Macromedia, Inc.
SOURCE: RealNetworks, Inc. {================================} Friday March 26, 11:00 am Eastern Time
Company Press Release
SOURCE: Excite, Inc.
Excite Launches Rich Media Web Experience, Next Dimension of World Wide Web
Excite Extreme Gives Consumers Visual Web Navigation and Search Using The Power of the New Intel(R) Pentium(R) III Processor
REDWOOD CITY, Calif., March 26 /PRNewswire/ -- Excite, Inc. (Nasdaq: XCIT - news) today launched Excite Extreme, the first ''concept'' site showcasing a highly visual, 3-D Web search and navigation experience. Available today through the Intel® WebOutfitter(SM) Service at www.intelweboutfitter.com, the 3D browsing experience highlights the possibilities of the Web when the performance of a Pentium® III processor is combined with the breadth of the Web. Excite Extreme is also expected to be available via excite.com in Q2, 1999.
''Working with Intel on this project has been a great opportunity to innovate, experiment and learn,'' said Adam Hertz, vice president of Development at Excite. ''We're using Excite Extreme to explore ideas for the next generation of user experiences on the Web. The high performance of the Pentium III processor lets us shift more of the work of generating the interface to the user's desktop computer. This is especially important for 'middleband' users.''
About the Excite Extreme Experience
Excite Extreme offers search and personalized content, several of the most popular features of Excite's portal service. All of these features are presented in a highly visual, 3-D environment. The home page of Excite Extreme presents the user with three areas to select from -- a customizable ''My Excite'' area, a topic-based ''Channels'' area and a ''Tools'' area. Each area of the home page is represented on the screen as a titled ''globe'' with related topics circling the globe. For example, the ''My Excite'' globe represents the user's start page information. Around the My Excite globe are orbiting objects that navigate to the users personalized information, such as custom stock quotes, weather forecasts and horoscope. The personalized content circling the My Excite globe is selected by the user in the same way consumers personalize their start page on Excite.com today.
In addition to easy visual navigation to information, it is also simple to return to areas of interest. On the upper left side of the screen is a trail of images showing where the user has visited. The user can at anytime click to the areas previously visited and they are immediately returned to that location, eliminating the need to click the ''back'' button.
''By offering a visual way to navigate the Web, we can provide more information in a single environment and give the user an easy way to select where they want to go at that moment,'' continued Hertz. ''Excite Extreme eliminates the need for a user to scroll around a page or click back and forth between areas because the service provides a user with the ability to simply click on any visual object on the screen and they are immediately taken to that area of interest.''
Excite Extreme Search
Excite's award-winning search is also made available on all pages within the Extreme environment through a search box in the upper right hand corner, giving the user the ability to change search topics without having to change the page they are on. Upon choosing to search a topic, the search results page delivered is also presented in a unique 3D visual. The search results are delivered in three primary categories, Excite directory results, general Web results, and news related results, with each differentiated by color and placement.
Beyond the Banner: Innovative Advertising Opportunities
Beyond traditional banners, this new environment offers interactive, rich media content showcase areas that can be sponsored by key corporate partners. For example, a major retailing partner, using 3D technology, will be able to show the user how she or he would look in a particular clothing item, and even place them in a location of their choice while modeling the garment.
Excite Extreme Requirements
Excite Extreme is a high-end product which is best viewed and experienced using a Pentium® III processor-based PC. Excite Extreme is built purely in JAVA, letting users with the most powerful computers and operating system have the ability to enjoy this 3-D experience.
Razorfish, razorfish.com, a digital change management company, collaborated with Excite and Intel on the product design and development. ''This project redefines the way people access information. We see this as a first step in the evolution of visual interactivity on the web, and it's a fun site to use,'' said Shane Ginsberg, Solutions Director of Razorfish.
The ground-breaking 3-D technologies which make Excite Extreme possible were developed by Ideaworks3d, a market leading company in this area. ''We created these technologies to enable online publishers to reach the largest possible audience with rich, interactive 3-D content,'' commented Adrian Sack, CEO of Ideaworks3d, www.ideaworks3d.com.
About Excite, Inc.
Excite, Inc. is a global Internet media company that attracts over 16 million unique consumers monthly to its flagship portal services, excite.com and webcrawler.com, and specializes in the delivery of highly targeted marketing solutions through its subsidiary MatchLogic, Inc. One of the best known brands on the Internet, the Excite brand is now recognized by more than 50 million Americans. Excite offers services in ten countries and personalization in four; the company has joint ventures with Itochu for Excite Japan, Liberty One for Excite Australia, Telecom Italia for Excite Italy and a joint venture with British Telecom for Excite UK. Excite, Inc., founded in 1994, is based in Redwood City, Calif.
For more investor information on Excite, please call the shareholder services hotline at 888-924-XCIT (9248).
(Unique user and brand recognition statistics quoted are from, respectively: Relevant Knowledge, Opinion Research Corp.)
Forward looking statements in this release are made pursuant to the safe harbor provisions of the Private securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995. Investors are cautioned that such forward-looking statements involve significant risks and uncertainties, including and without limitation: Excite's ability to effectively deploy the Excite
Extreme Web site; consumer acceptance of computers incorporating the Intel Pentium III processor; the acceptance of 3-D technologies by Excite's advertising customers; and Excite's ability to serve its existing customer base of advertisers and agencies while delivering innovative campaigns across a wide range of publishing sites, platforms, and connection speeds. Actual results may differ materially due to a number of factors, including the technological, operational and financial challenges associated with the deployment of Excite's technologies and services, deployment of competing technologies and services and risks related to Excite's ongoing success, as detailed in Excite's most recent reports on Forms 10-K and 10-Q (as amended), on file with the Securities and Exchange Commission.
SOURCE: Excite, Inc.
{================================} ELSA Synergy II(TM) Receives Cadence 1999 'Show Stopper' Award at National Design and Engineering Show
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Synergy II Recognized as the Graphics Accelerator of Choice for Mechanical Designers
SANTA CLARA, Calif., April 2 /PRNewswire/ -- ELSA, Inc., a world leader in computer graphics add-on and peripheral solutions, today announced that the ELSA Synergy II received Cadence Magazine's Show Stopper Award at the National Design and Engineering Show (NDES), held in Chicago March 15-18, 1999. The Synergy II is a new professional graphics accelerator that is redefining the entry-level workstation price-performance ratio by meeting the complex 2D/3D graphics requirements of mechanical designers and other graphic professionals for a fraction of the cost of comparable solutions.
"CADENCE Magazine awarded the ELSA Synergy II with an NDES Show Stopper award because it best demonstrated innovation and vision toward extending MCAD capabilities on the desktop," stated Peter Sheerin, senior editor at Cadence Magazine. "The Synergy II is the result of ELSA's uniquely innovative vision to combine the nVidia RIVA TNT2 chip, ELSA's OpenGL driver, optimization for the new Pentium III Streaming SIMD instructions and 32MBs of memory to provide better 3D CAD performance than cards costing several times as much."
ELSA Synergy II is optimized for professional engineering applications including Mechanical Desktop(TM), Solidworks(TM), Pro/ENGINEER(TM), and Microstation/J(TM) Modeler. ELSA Synergy II combines ELSA's award winning OpenGL technology and certified application-specific enhancements with nVidia's TwiN-Texel (TNT2) graphics processor to deliver extremely fast 3D and 2D performance.
A high performance solution for mechanical designers, the Synergy II processes 8 million polygons per second, 250 million pixels per second bilinear, and resolutions up to 1920 x 1200 in True Color with a 32-bit Z-buffer (including 8-bit stencil) for 3D image quality. In addition, Synergy II delivers 2D performance of 299 in Winbench 99 High-End benchmark in Windows NT when tested on a Pentium III 500MHz system. For complex 3D modeling, Synergy II delivers a ProCDRS-01 score of 9.66 (1280x1024 16bpp 75Hz).
"The Synergy II is truly redefining the price-performance ratio by delivering unbeatable entry-level workstation performance for graphics professionals at an unbelievably low price," said Uli Theissen, president of ELSA, Inc. "We are thrilled that the Synergy II is following in the footsteps of GLoria Synergy, the Synergy II's award-winning predecessor, with this prestigious recognition by Cadence Magazine as an NDES Show Stopper product."
About Synergy II
Synergy II includes ELSA's SIMDream(TM) optimization for the Intel Pentium III processor, which delivers Streaming SIMD Extensions to ELSA's unique OpenGL and Windows NT drivers for optimal use of the Pentium III architecture. Utilizing the RIVA TNT2 processing engine as its integrated hardware setup core, Synergy II leverages the Pentium III core for high-bandwidth graphics processing such as geometry, transformation and lighting acceleration. With the implementation of Intel's new Streaming SIMD Extensions instruction set, ELSA will maximize the Pentium III's potential by accelerating important parts of the geometry pipeline to deliver significant application performance improvements to customers.
With support for both AGP 2X and AGP 4X, Synergy II offers unmatched Windows NT performance. The graphics controller has a dual-pixel 32-bit color pipeline with a 24-bit Z-buffer, 8-bit stencil buffer and per-pixel precision. With double the fill rate through the TwiN-Texel technology, it delivers fill rates of 250 million pixels-per-second, and can drive 8 million triangles per second. The Synergy II provides resolutions of up to 1920 x 1200 with a 300MHz RAMDAC.
ELSA Software Advantage
Included with every ELSA professional graphics accelerator, the ELSA Software Advantage provides users with application specific performance and productivity advantage for OpenGL and 2D. Software drivers and utilities for AutoCAD and 3D Studio MAX/VIZ. ELSA OpenGL technology achieves a ProCDRS score surpassing nine. ELSA POWERdraft is the only driver delivering hardware acceleration for both AutoCAD R13 and R14. ELSA MAXtreme is for 3D graphics performance with a customized driver combining OpenGL, HEIDI, and ELSA technology. ELSAview 3D is a real-time 3D editor and viewer tightly integrated with AutoCAD R14, AutoCAD R13, MDT and ADT.
Through the ELSA Software Advantage, customers take advantage of a wide array of unique, high-performance drivers and utilities to enable Synergy and GLoria accelerator boards to achieve maximum 2D/3D graphics performance. ELSA leverages experience in CAD and high-end graphics to create high-quality drivers to accelerate professional applications such as AutoCAD or 3D Studio MAX.
CADENCE Show Stopper Award
CADENCE awarded 10 Show Stopper awards at this year's National Design and Engineering Show (NDES). Five awards went to software products and five to hardware products.
ELSA Information
ELSA, Inc. is a subsidiary of ELSA AG, a Germany based publicly listed company, trading on the 'Neuer Markt' trading segment of the Frankfurt stock exchange. Founded in 1980, ELSA has built a world-class reputation in high-performance 2D and 3D graphics solutions for professional workstations, commercial desktop and consumer PCs. In addition ELSA offers a wide range of communications products such as modems, ISDN-internet access solutions and PC based videoconferencing products.
NOTE: The ELSA logo is a registered trademark of ELSA AG. All other trademarks are the property of their respective owners.
SOURCE ELSA, Inc.
/CONTACT: press, Courtney Zoog of Focal Point Communications, 707-875-9693, or courtneyzoog@earthlink.net, for ELSA, Inc.; or product contact, Avi Singh of ELSA, Inc., 408-919-9100 ext. 140, or avis@elsa.com/
/Web site: elsa.com
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Company Press Release
MGI Software Maximizes PC Photography on the Internet with Support for Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 & Intel Pentium(R) III Processor in MGI PhotoSuite II
TORONTO, ONTARIO--MGI Software Corp., the leader in photo and video software for consumers and solutions for original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), today announced that its popular PC photography software, MGI PhotoSuite II, supports the newly-released Microsoft Internet Explorer 5, as well as the Streaming Single Instruction Multiple Data Extensions with Floating Point set in Intel's Pentium III® processor. The new support promises to provide MGI PhotoSuite II users the most robust PC and Internet photo experience available.
''MGI Software was an early pioneer in proving the benefits of incorporating the Internet as a core piece of the software experience,'' said Rob Bennett, group product manager of Windows Marketing at Microsoft Corp [Nasdaq:MSFT - news]. ''We are pleased that MGI PhotoSuite II is taking advantage of the componentized, high speed Internet Explorer 5 technologies to deliver premier Internet functionality to their customers.''
MGI PhotoSuite II received widespread critical acclaim for incorporating the Internet Explorer technologies as an enriching part of the PC photo experience. MGI PhotoSuite II integrates Internet Explorer to generate the user interface and to provide seamless Web navigation. Users can easily access the Internet to search for and collect pictures, use online photo services, share photos on the Web with family friends and business associates, or try out new downloadable product features, read PC photo articles, and gain new tips and tricks at MGI's photo portal -- photostreet.com.
MGI PhotoSuite II users will enjoy increases in speed when applying special effects, color transformations, image enhancements such as sharpen, and other processor-intensive operations, because of the new technologies in the Pentium III processor. As part of its creative content releases on PhotoStreet.com, MGI Software will be offering a special set of effects that have been optimized specifically for use with Pentium III processor-based computers. The update, as well as the new content that takes advantage of the update, is available through photostreet.com. All downloads are free to registered MGI PhotoSuite II users.
''MGI PhotoSuite II allows users to simply cruise, zoom, drag and drop photos from the Internet without ever leaving their application,'' said Anthony DeCristofaro, president & CEO, MGI Software. ''With the new Pentium III processor-based systems and Microsoft Internet Explorer 5 this experience will feel more instantaneous.''
About MGI Software
MGI Software is changing the way home and business PC owners experience photography and video. The company has quickly become a market and technology leader with its award-winning products and its relationships with leading manufacturers driving the union of computing with photography, video, and TV. MGI's partners include leading firms in the photo industry, online service suppliers, and manufacturers of digital cameras, computer hardware, software, and consumer electronics. With more than 16 million copies shipped, MGI's PhotoSuite and VideoWave are the leading brands in retail and OEM distribution spanning 25 countries. MGI Software shares trade on The Toronto Stock Exchange (Symbol: MGI). For more information visit mgisoft.com.
(c) MGI Software Corp.,1999. MGI, MGI PhotoSuite, MGI VideoWave and PhotoStreet.com are trademarks or registered trademarks of MGI Software Corp. All other company and/or product names are trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective manufacturers.
Contact:
MGI Software Corp. Media Contact: Chris Taylor (905) 707-3554 chrisT@mgisoft.com www.mgisoft.com
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