3Dlabs Releases High-performance Direct3D Driver for Permedia, Permedia NT and GLINT 500TX; Identical driver binaries for full range of 3Dlabs' 3D processors; Direct3D takes full advantage of GLINT Delta Geometry accelerator with 3D acceleration fully integrated into Windows 95 windowing environment.SAN JOSE San Jose, city, United States San Jose (sănəzā`, săn hōzā`), city (1990 pop. 782,248), seat of Santa Clara co., W central Calif.; founded 1777, inc. 1850. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 13, 1996--3Dlabs(R) Inc. today announced immediate availability of an optimized Direct3D(TM) driver for its range of 3D processors including Permedia(TM), Permedia NT and GLINT A legacy family of 2D and 3D processors from 3D Labs, Inc., a division of Creative Technology Ltd., Milpitas, CA (www.3dlabs.com) that were widely used in high-end display adapters. (R) 500TX. The Direct3D driver is directly ported to 3Dlabs' silicon architecture for optimum performance. The compatibility between Permedia and GLINT allows the same driver binary to be used across the entire range of 3Dlabs' accelerators - from consumer-class Permedia boards to GLINT-based professional 3D accelerators. Both GLINT and Permedia provide fully-integrated 2D and 3D acceleration, and the 3Dlabs software includes an optimized DirectDraw(TM) driver that is tightly integrated with Direct3D. Both drivers are fully-compatible with the latest release 3.0 of the DirectX API set. Direct3D's close integration with DirectDraw provides high-performance 3D, 2D and video acceleration within the Windows(R) 95 windowing environment See windows environment. . The 3Dlabs Direct3D drivers fully exploit the geometry acceleration of the optional GLINT Delta geometry pipeline processor. GLINT Delta is a 100 MFlop 3D geometry pipeline processor that typically doubles system performance by offloading polygon polygon, closed plane figure bounded by straight line segments as sides. A polygon is convex if any two points inside the polygon can be connected by a line segment that does not intersect any side. If a side is intersected, the polygon is called concave. setup operations into hard-wired silicon, including high-precision floating-point 3D interpolant slope calculations. 3Dlabs' Direct3D driver is available for download at 3Dlabs' web-site: www.3dlabs.com, together with board compatibility information. Company Information 3Dlabs is a leading innovator and supplier of high-performance, cost-effective graphics semiconductors, software and related technology designed to bring workstation-class 3D graphics to the PC. The company has introduced five 3D graphics processors over the last two years with price, performance and functionality designed to meet the needs of different PC-based 3D market segments. 3Dlabs markets and sells its 3D graphics technology worldwide, both through merchant chip sales and technology licensing arrangements. The company's offerings include merchant 3D graphics processors, embeddable processor cores, reference software drivers for major PC operating systems Operating systems can be categorized by technology, ownership, licensing, working state, usage, and by many other characteristics. In practice, many of these groupings may overlap. and 3D APIs, reference board designs and broad application software support. -0- Note to Editors: 3Dlabs and GLINT are registered trademarks and Permedia is a trademark of 3Dlabs Inc. Ltd. Microsoft, Windows, Direct3D, DirectDraw are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the United States United States, officially United States of America, republic (2005 est. pop. 295,734,000), 3,539,227 sq mi (9,166,598 sq km), North America. The United States is the world's third largest country in population and the fourth largest country in area. and/or other countries. OpenGL is a registered trademark of Silicon Graphics, Inc. All other trademarks are acknowledged and recognized. CONTACT: 3Dlabs Inc. Neil Trevett Neil Trevett is currently Vice President of Embedded Content at NVIDIA. He is responsible for enabling and encouraging compelling applications on non-PC platforms, including cell phones and automobiles. Prior to joining NVIDIA, Mr. , 408/436-3455 neil.trevett@3dlabs.com http://www.3dlabs.com or Horizon Public Relations public relations, activities and policies used to create public interest in a person, idea, product, institution, or business establishment. By its nature, public relations is devoted to serving particular interests by presenting them to the public in the most Jonathan Hirshon, 408/982-2555 jh@horizonpr.com http://www.horizonpr.com |
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