Brooktree BtV(R) MediaStream accelerator chipset is ideal match for Microsoft Windows 95(R).

SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 24, 1995--Brooktree Corp. (San Diego) Monday announced at the Computer Game Developer's Conference (CGDC) here that the company's BtV MediaStream media accelerator chipset is fully compatible with the Windows 95 operating system.

BtV also has built-in features that will significantly improve the performance of game titles written for Windows 95.

"Brooktree is pleased to be a part of the Microsoft Game SDK announcement -- we believe they have really put together the right tools for game developers wanting to develop titles for Windows 95," said Thomas B. Clarkson III, division vice president of marketing for Brooktree. "We've been anxiously awaiting its arrival, and are pleased we can now really highlight some of the hottest gaming features of BtV.

"Not only is BtV fully compatible with all of the components of the Game SDK, it also provides direct hardware acceleration support for key new Windows 95-based game APIs, including Direct Draw and Direct Sound, and will soon also accelerate the Direct Input API," Clarkson added. "Game developers who write to the Game SDK will automatically leverage BtV hardware capabilities in the areas of full-screen, full-motion video sprites and advanced sound. Titles written to this standard will get top performance - outstanding interactivity and blazing-fast video. Together, BtV and the Windows 95 Game SDK will dramatically elevate the game performance of IBM PCs and compatibles."

"Brooktree's BtV MediaStream media accelerator chipset will take full advantage of our new Game SDK technology," said Brad Silverberg, vice president of the personal systems division at Microsoft. "And such direct hardware acceleration will bring extra added performance to game titles operating under Windows 95."

Introduced in the fall of 1994, Brooktree's BtV MediaStream chipset is the first fully integrated multimedia accelerator chipset of its kind to simultaneously accelerate and control sound, video and graphics, all on a single add-in card or right on the PC motherboard, and all connected to a single high-speed local bus using one unified set of software drivers. A BtV solution implemented with just a single MB of memory can provide outstanding graphics performance simultaneous with up to 1024 x 768, 30-frames-per-second true-color video, while at the same time enabling such highly interactive multimedia capabilities as precision lip synchronization and game effects like video-over-graphics chroma-keying. Brooktree is now sampling BtV production-level silicon for a wide variety of cards and systems configurations.

Game developers and OEMs interested in more information about the game acceleration features of BtV should contact the Applications Hotline at 1/800-2BT-APPS.

Brooktree Corporation designs and markets high-performance digital and mixed-signal integrated circuits for computer graphics, multimedia and communications applications. The company, which has its headquarters in San Diego, employs more than 590 people worldwide. Revenues for the fiscal year ended Sept. 24, 1994, were $109 million. Brooktree stock is traded on the NASDAQ National Market System under the symbol BTRE.

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