Acer Labs Inc. (ALi) Announces New ALiCAT-64-Bit Graphics Accelerator; Boosts performance by more than 25%; Maintains same low price point as earlier version.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)--March 13, 1995--Acer Laboratories Inc. (ALI) today announced a new high-performance 64-bit graphics accelerator A display adapter that performs a specialized set of graphics functions to render an image on screen. Today, all display adapters provide basic rendering functions in hardware, but many have graphics processing units (GPUs) that are sophisticated computers. chip that runs Windows benchmarks more than 25 percent faster than its predecessor and other graphics accelerators currently on the market. The new AliCAT-64 chip, product number M3145A, boasts performance in excess of 30 million Winmarks and provides customers with a highly cost-effective solution for both add-in cards and motherboard implementations. The chip provides a direct interface for VL and PCI bus designs without extra logic, and includes drivers for Windows 3.1 and Windows NT as well as OS/2 versions 2.X and 3.0. "Our new graphics accelerator chip addresses the system and sub-system manufacturer's need for higher performance to better differentiate products from competitive brands," said John Shih, ALi Vice President of Engineering. "The new ALiCAT-64 is a good example of ALi's commitment to providing the market with the highest system-level performance at the lowest possible cost." For "Green" energy-saving PC systems, the M3145A supports Display Power Management Signal (DPMS See VESA DPMS. (hardware) DPMS - Display Power Management Signaling. ) and provides self-power control for clock cell and RAMDAC (Random Access Memory Digital to Analog Converter) The VGA controller chip that maintains the color palette and converts data from memory into analog signals for the monitor. RAMDAC - Random Access Memory Digital-to-Analog Converter . The ALiCAT-64-bit graphics accelerator chip features a 64-bit block transfer engine, supports all standard Windows accelerator functions, and includes a high-performance line draw engine. Through a combination of hardware and software, the AliCAT M3145A provides high performance utilizing either low-cost DRAMs or fast EDO DRAMs. It supports a full 32-bit local bus and supports 16/32/64-bit video memory bus width. Pricing and Availability The ALi M3145A is sampling today and is priced at $9.50 in volume quantities. It is packaged in a 208-pin PQFP (Plastic Quad Flat Package) Refers to many varieties of QFP chip packages, which are molded in plastic. See QFP. . About ALi ALi (Acer Laboratories, Inc.), founded in 1987, is a member company of the Acer Group and is headquartered in Taipei, Taiwan. Since its establishment, ALi has provided highly integrated, cost-effective and innovative IC products to support personal computer system and subsystem manufacturers. ALi is not only one of the world's oldest and largest system core logic manufacturers, but is also a world-class provider of other PC peripheral products, such as super I/O and graphics. With more than 80 design engineers, most with advance degree's, ALi is capable of developing a wide range of products to support a variety of CPUs, including the X86 families up through 64-bit CPUs such as the Pentium, M1, K5 and RISC processors such as the R4000/4600, as well as the industry standard buses including VESA (Video Electronics Standards Association, Milpitas, CA, www.vesa.org) A membership organization founded in 1989 that sets interface standards for the PC, workstation and computing environments. Note the following VESA standards following this entry. Local (VL), PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). , and ISA (1) (Instruction Set Architecture) See instruction set. (2) (Interactive Services Association) See Internet Alliance. (3) (Internet Security and Acceleration) See .NET. . The company employs 160 people and had revenues of $70 million in 1994. ALi supports its products in the North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. Market through its advance engineering center in San Jose, Calif., and markets and sells its products through Pacific Technology Group, headquartered in Santa Clara, Calif. Direct Product Inquiries to: Nancy Hartsoch Pacific Technology Group 4701 Patrick Henry Drive, Bldg. 2101 Santa Clara, CA 95054 Phone: 408/764-0644 Fax: 408/496-6142 CONTACT: ALi John Shih, 408/432-6200 jshih4@smptlink.acer.com Franson, Hagerty & Associates Susan Cain, 415/462-1605 susancain@aol.com |
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