This Week In Multimedia Deals
05/03/1999
Multimedia Week
(c) 1999 Phillips Business Information, Inc.
ACE Associated Compiler Experts, NEC Corp.
NEC is now licensed to use ACE's CoSy Compiler Developement Platform to generate high-performance C compilers for the NEC uPD7701x and uPD7711x families of 16-bit DSP processor cores and for its next- generation DSP products.
* Announced: April 29
* No. of Products: 2
* Products: uPD7701x, uPD7711x
* Contacts: ACE Associated Compiler Experts , Cindi Maciolek, 408/269-2646; NEC Corp. , D.J. Anderson, 650/528-5306
Altec Lansing Technologies Inc. (P), STMicroelectronics (SC)
Altec and STMicroelectronics announced a strategic partnership to establish the ALST Technical Excellence Center in Kfar Saba, Israel. The center, which will open in May, will develop joint technologies and systems solutions for the computer, consumer and communications technology market.
* Announced: April 14
* Contacts: Altec Lansing Technologies Inc. , Sharon Entenberg, 717/296-1319; STMicroelectronics, Jean-Pierre Rossomme, 781/402-8534
ATI Technologies Inc. (SC), Gateway (CH)
ATI's RAGE LT PRO has been selected by Gateway to deliver no- compromise 3D, 2D and video acceleration to Gateway's new Solo 9150 notebook. This is ATI's first deal with Gateway for the ATI RAGE LT PRO.
* Announced: April 27
* No. of Products: 1
* Product: Solo 9150
* Contacts: ATI Technologies Inc. , Brian Hentschel, 905/882- 2600; Gateway , Bart Brown , 605/232-2000
ATI Technologies Inc. (P), Gobi Inc.
Gobi has selected ATI as the provider of graphics and video acceleration for the advanced multimedia computer systems it will provide to its subscribers.
* Announced: April 29
* No. of Products: 1
* Product: RAGE PRO TURBO
* Contacts: ATI Technologies Inc. , Brian Hentschel , 905/882- 2600
C-Cube Microsystems (P), General Instruments Corp. (S)
General Instrument, DiviCom (a subsidiary of C-Cube ) and NDS have selected C-Cube 's DVxpert architecture for their next generation encoding systems.
* Announced: April 19
* No. of Products: 1
* Product: DVxpert
* Contacts: C - Cube Microsystems , Molly McCarthy, 408/490-8017; General Instruments Corp. , Sharon Corbitt, 215/323-1873
Evesham Micros (CH), 3dfx Interactive (CH)
Evesham, UK PC manufacturer, announced that it will include 3dfx's Voodoo3 3000 as a standard feature in its EveshamVale Scorcher and Platimum range of PCs. The Voodoo3 3000 AGP card offers leading graphics technology, which delivers more than 100 billion operations per second.
* Announced: April 27
* No. of Products: 2
* Products: EveshamVale Scorcher series, Platinum series
* Contacts: Evesham Micros, Christina Erskine , 0171-490-1323; 3dfx Interactive , Steve Schick, 408/935-4366
NEC Direct (CH), 3dfx Interactive (S)
NEC Direct, a subsidiary of Packard Bell NEC, announced that it is bundling 3dfx's Voodoo3 3000 AGP card as a standard feature in select Direction PCs and as an optional feature for all Direction PCs.
* Announced: April 20
* No. of Products: 1
* Product: NEC Direction
* Contacts: NEC Direct , Christina Erskine, 0171-490-1323
NVIDIA Corp. (SC), Micron Electronics (CH)
NVIDIA and Micron announced a joint-effort to standardize NVIDIA TNT2 graphics processors in all Micron Millennia desktop systems.
* Announced: April 28
* No. of Products: 2
* Products: NVIDIA RIVA TNT & TNT2
* Contacts: NVIDIA Corp. , Jen-Hsun Huang , 408/617-4000; Micron Electronics , Jeff Moeser , 208/898-3434
Strata (ST), Be Inc. (ST)
Strata and Be have teamed up to port StudioPro, Strata's flagship 3D modeling, rendering and animation package, and Strata's VideoShop to the BeOS operating system.
* Announced: April 21
* No. of Products: 2
* Products: StudioPro, VideoShop
* Contacts: Strata , Tad Trueblood, 435/628-5218
Sun Microsystems (CH), Tektronix (S)
Tektronix will integrate its M2Trillium encoder board with Sun's Sun Enterprise server products running Sun's Solaris operating environment and new Sun StorEdge Media Central software platform, providing realtime MPEG encoding, streaming and store forward file.
* Announced: April 20
* No. of Products: 2
* Products: M2Trillium encoders/Sun Enterprise servers
* Contacts: Sun Microsystems , Andrea Fleming, 650/786-8075; Tektronix , Laura Barber-Miller, 503/627-6240
Vela Research LP (S), Williams Vyvx Services (S)
Vela, a provider of video compression products for the cable and broadcast services industries, announced that Williams selected its MPEG-2 solutions for a system-wide upgrade of Vyvx Advertising Distribution Services.
* Announced: April 29
* No. of Products: 1
* Product: Argus 4:2:2
* Contacts: Vela Research LP, Mark Fears, 727/507-5346; Williams Vyvx Services , Patti Barker , 918/573-8380
Xing Technology Corp. (ST), HyCD Inc. (ST)
HyCD and Xing announced that they will combine their top-rated MP3 technologies: Xing's MP3 Encoder will be bundled into HyCD's Play & Record CD recording software.
* Announced: April 27
* No. of Products: 1
* Product: Play & Record
* Contacts: Xing Technology Corp. , Jennifer Stone , 805/783- 0400; HyCD Inc. , Earl Pennell, 770/639-3199
Key: CH=Computer Hardware; S=Services; P=Peripherals; CN=Computer Networks; SC=Semiconductors; ST=Software/Tools; CE=Consumer Electronics
(Source: Multimedia Week)
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