Alliance ProMotion accelerators support new Microsoft Game SDK.SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 24, 1995--Alliance Semiconductor Corporation (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 :ALSC ALSC Association for Library Service to Children ALSC Adirondack Lakes Survey Corporation ALSC Afloat Logistics and Sealift Capability ALSC American Lumber Standards Committee, Inc. ALSC Advanced Logistics Systems Center (AFMC) ) today announced it will support the Microsoft(R) Windows(R) 95 Game Software Developers Kit (SDK). Personal computer games This article is about the 80's magazine. For games in general, see Personal computer game. Personal Computer Games was a multi-format UK computer games mag of the early/mid eighties. written to the Game SDK will be able to take advantage of advanced features incorporated in Alliance's ProMotion(TM) graphics and multimedia accelerator chips. "The rapid increases in PC hardware capability, and the rapid penetration of PCs into the home market, have brought more MIPS (Million Instructions Per Second) The execution speed of a computer. For example, .5 MIPS is 500,000 instructions per second; 100 MIPS is a hundred million instructions per second. into the home than game developers dreamed possible just two years ago," said Sid Agrawal, Alliance vice president of marketing. "The Microsoft Game SDK gives games the ability to harness this tremendous power. Using the Game SDK, game developers will deliver better experiences through PCs than they can achieve with any of the next-generation consoles. Because the Game SDK is device-independent, the same games that run well on baseline Windows 95 systems will run better with advanced accelerators like Alliance ProMotion." "We are pleased that Alliance is developing technology to accelerate games under Windows 95," said Brad Silverberg, vice president of the Personal Systems Division at Microsoft. "We believe that such hardware and drivers will bring extra performance to game titles under Windows 95." ProMotion Accelerator Family ProMotion-3210, the world's first low-cost Multimedia User Interface (MMUI MMUI Multi Modal Paradigm User Interface ) accelerator chip, offers fast VGA and graphics acceleration along with full-screen, full-motion video playback acceleration. ProMotion-6410, the second member of the ProMotion family, offers industry-leading cost-performance in a 64-bit graphics + video accelerator. Both ProMotion-3210 and ProMotion-6410 devices are in production now. ProMotion-based graphics adapters accelerate software video playback through the Display Control Interface (DCI), a precursor to the Game SDK. Company Background Alliance Semiconductor Corporation, based in 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. , is a leading worldwide supplier of high performance memories and related products. Alliance designs, develops, manufactures and markets CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. VLSI VLSI: see integrated circuit. (1) (Very Large Scale Integration) Between 100,000 and one million transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, LSI and ULSI. (2) (VLSI Technology, Inc., Tempe, AZ, www.semiconductors. products using the latest manufacturing technologies, with feature sizes down to 0.5-micron. The company markets its high performance products to the desktop and portable computing, networking, telecommunications and instrumentation industries. -0- Note to Editors: ProMotion, No-cost motion video and the Alliance logo are trademarks of Alliance Semiconductor Corporation. Microsoft and Windows are either trademarks or registered trademarks of Microsoft Corporation in the United States and/or other countries. Other trademarks are property of their respective holders. CONTACT: Alliance Semiconductor Corporation Sid Agrawal/Spencer Greene, 408/383-4900 |
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