Adaptive Solutions' PowerShop teams with Integrated Micro solutions' TwinTurbo; Highest Performance Photoshop Image Processing and Graphics Acceleration Available on the Desktop.BEAVERTON, Ore.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 9, 1996--Adaptive Solutions(R) (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on :ADSO) today announced that its award-winning PowerShop(TM) PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). accelerator boards for Adobe Photoshop will be available as a bundled solution with the award-winning Integrated Micro Solutions' TwinTurbo(TM) 128M. This combination of massively parallel processing hardware acceleration and video acceleration produces the ultimate Photoshop production system. Adaptive Solutions is demonstrating this powerful system this week at the Integrated Micro Solutions Booth #3280 at MacWorld Expo in San Francisco, Jan. 9-12. PowerShop, a 1995 MacUser Eddy Award Winner, accelerates Photoshop functions by factors of up to 2,000 percent over the fastest Macintosh systems, delivering unmatched speed increases to computation-intensive tasks such as unsharp mask, rotate, color transformations, Gaussian blur and many others. By utilizing the latest in VLSI technology, a wide 128-bit memory bus, and an ultra-fast 32 PCI bus interface, the TwinTurbo 128M offers astounding a·stound tr.v. a·stound·ed, a·stound·ing, a·stounds To astonish and bewilder. See Synonyms at surprise. [From Middle English astoned, past participle of astonen, graphic performance. The board's redraw To redisplay an image on screen whether text or graphics. The concept is that the first time elements are displayed, they are "drawn," and if something is changed, they are "redrawn." Applications often have a Refresh command that redraws the screen. rate can exceed 100 million pixels per second and fill operations can achieve up to 3 billion operations per second. Users of Photoshop will instantly feel the increased speed over the lesser 64-bit or 96-bit graphics engines. The TwinTurbo-128M is highly acclaimed in the industry, winning a four Diamond rating from MacWeek, a four Mice rating and Best Buy Award from MacUser, and Editors' Choice Award from Computer Graphics World. "Our customers were demanding a fast processing engine that would compliment our TwinTurbo," said Douglas Yokoyama, vice president sales and marketing, Integrated Micro Solutions. "Adaptive Solutions' PowerShop provides the power and speed we were looking for Looking for In the context of general equities, this describing a buy interest in which a dealer is asked to offer stock, often involving a capital commitment. Antithesis of in touch with. . It's a marriage made in Photoshop heaven." "MacUser teamed our two products in a recent review," said Bob Anundson, vice president and general manager, Prepress for Adaptive Solutions. "We wanted to make it easy for the Photoshop professional to obtain both of these high-quality products." This Photoshop performance solution -- the PowerShop PCI accelerator and TwinTurbo 128M graphics board -- is now available through a select channel of service providers, with a street price of around $2,500. Integrated Micro Solutions is a world leader in 32-bit and 64-bit high-performance graphics controllers for Windows and Macintosh-based computers, as well as ATM boards, chips, and hub development. For more information, contact Integrated Micro Solutions at 2085 Hamilton Avenue, Third Floor, San Jose, California San Jose (IPA: /ˌsænhoʊˈzeɪ/) is the third-largest city in California, and the tenth-largest in the United States. It is the county seat of Santa Clara County. , 95125. Phone 408/369-8282; Fax 408/369-0128. Adaptive Solutions, headquartered in Beaverton, pioneered parallel processing for the desktop and embedded applications. Adaptive designs and manufactures parallel processing products using the CNAPS CNAPS Center for Northeast Asian Policy Studies architecture for pattern recognition applications, including image processing and neural networks. For more information, contact Adaptive Solutions at 1400 NW Compton Dr., Suite 340, Beaverton, OR 97006. Phone: 800/482-6277; Fax: 503/690-1249; Internet: www.asi.com. -0- Adaptive Solutions and the Adaptive Solutions logo are registered trademarks of Adaptive Solutions Inc. PowerShop is a trademark of Adaptive Solutions Inc. Integrated Micro Solutions, IMS (1) See IP Multimedia Subsystem. (2) (Information Management System) An early IBM hierarchical DBMS for IBM mainframes. IMS was widely implemented throughout the 1970s under MVS and continues to be used under z/OS. , and TwinTurbo-128M are trademarks of Integrated Micro Solutions. All other trademarks belong to their respective owners. CONTACT: KVO KVO Keep Vein Open KVO Key-Value Observing KVO Kunstvakonderwijs (Dutch) KVO Keeler, Vandyke, O'Brien (KVO Industries; Santa Rosa CA) 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 Lindy lin·dy or Lin·dy n. pl. lin·dies A lively swing dance for couples. Also called lindy hop. [From Lindynickname of Charles Augustus Lindbergh. 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