Dynamic Pictures Oxygen 3D Cards Selected by Digital for Global Graphics Reference Program.SANTA CLARA Santa Clara, city, Cuba Santa Clara (sän`tä klä`rä), city (1994 est. pop. 217,000), capital of Villa Clara prov., central Cuba. , Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 29, 1997--Dynamic Pictures Inc., the leading developer of 2D and 3D graphics acceleration technologies, today announced that the Dynamic Pictures(R) Oxygen(TM) 3D Family of graphics accelerators has been selected by Digital Equipment Corp. for its Global Graphics Reference Program. By participating in the program, the Oxygen 3D Family is earmarked as a "best of breed" graphics technology available to Digital customers. The Global Graphics Reference Program enables resellers to build graphics solutions that are tailored to customers' needs and technology preferences, rather than limiting resellers to offering prepackaged pre·pack·age tr.v. pre·pack·aged, pre·pack·ag·ing, pre·pack·ag·es To wrap or package (a product) before marketing. Adj. 1. graphics solutions. In addition, the program gives Digital's distributors the ability to purchase systems and graphics from sources other than Digital and integrate them for customers. "Digital has been a long-term strategic partner of Dynamic Pictures, and over that time we have provided Digital with high-level 3D graphics technologies that complement its workstation platforms," said Patrick Conte, vice president of sales and channel marketing for Dynamic Pictures. "Being selected for Digital's new Global Graphics Reference Program is a continuation of that partnership. The result is a design win for end users who can now custom build their Digital workstation platforms with the best 3D graphics accelerators on the market." Many major software companies whose applications rely on graphics quality and performance have a favorite or recommended graphics option. Digital's Global Graphics Reference Program provides the channel and end-user with the ability to select the graphics option best suited to their application with the knowledge and confidence that the product has been verified for quality and software compatibility on Digital's Pentium II-based platforms. As part of the program, Digital verifies the Dynamic Pictures Oxygen 3D line for quality and software compatibility. Digital will work with Dynamic Pictures to sell products through channels partners in North America North America, third largest continent (1990 est. pop. 365,000,000), c.9,400,000 sq mi (24,346,000 sq km), the northern of the two continents of the Western Hemisphere. , Europe and Asia. In addition, products will be stocked and sold by Digital distributors and supported directly by Dynamic Pictures. Digital also offers an optional service contract for customer service and support of Global Graphics Reference Products. The service is available worldwide. "With Dynamic Pictures' new PowerThreads technology for multi-threaded OpenGL, the Oxygen 3D Family is more powerful than ever, and perfectly positioned to take advantage of the newest breed of multi-CPU systems from Digital," said Ron Locklin, vice president of Visual Computing The use of computers for 3D modeling and animation. See visualization. for Digital. "The Oxygen 202 and Oxygen 402 are high-quality, high-performance graphics options preferred by many users in the DCC (1) (Direct Cable Connection) A Windows 95/98 feature that allows PCs to be cabled together for data transfer. DCC actually sets up a network connection between the two machines. , CAD/CAM CAD/CAM in full computer-aided design/computer-aided manufacturing. Integration of design and manufacturing into a system under direct control of digital computers. , GIS and Visualization markets. Combined with our new Global Graphics Reference Program, Digital and Dynamic Pictures are clearly blazing new ground in making performance 3D solutions affordable and robust for our entire customer base." Based on Dynamic Pictures' revolutionary Oxygen chip -- a highly scalable, pipelined rendering and texture mapping In computer graphics, the application of a type of surface to a 3D image. A texture can be uniform, such as a brick wall, or irregular, such as wood grain or marble. The common method is to create a 2D bitmapped image of the texture, called a "texture map," which is then "wrapped around" processor -- the powerful Oxygen 3D Family is comprised of three models: the Oxygen 102, with 8MB of SDRAM (Synchronous DRAM) A type of dynamic RAM (DRAM) memory chip that has been widely used since the late 1990s. SDRAM chips eliminated wait states by dividing the chip into two cell blocks and interleaving data between them. and a single Oxygen chip; the Oxygen 202, with 16MB of SDRAM and dual Oxygen chips rendering in parallel; and the Oxygen 402, with 32MB of SDRAM and quad Oxygen chips rendering in parallel. Digital Equipment Corp. is a world leader in open client/server solutions from personal computing Refers to users working on their own computers rather than a terminal to a mainframe. Sometimes, the term refers to using computers at home for work and/or entertainment in contrast to business use only. See personal computer. to integrated worldwide information systems. Digital's scalable Alpha and x86 platforms, storage, networking, software and services, together with industry- focused solutions from business partners, help organizations compete and win in today's global market place. For more information on Digital Personal Workstations, see www.workstation.digital.com . Dynamic Pictures designs, develops and markets 3D graphics accelerators for desktop workstations and personal computers, targeting customers in the MCAD MCAD Microsoft Certified Application Developer MCAD Mechanical Computer Aided Design MCAD Medium-Chain Acyl-CoA Dehydrogenase (inherited metabolic disease) MCAD Minneapolis College of Art and Design , AEC AEC US Atomic Energy Commission Noun 1. AEC - a former executive agency (from 1946 to 1974) that was responsible for research into atomic energy and its peacetime uses in the United States Atomic Energy Commission , animation, and visual computing fields. The company markets and sells its products through technical OEMs, distributors and value added resellers. Dynamic Pictures is a privately held corporation Noun 1. privately held corporation - a corporation owned by a few people; shares have no public market close corporation, closed corporation, private corporation with headquarters at 5225 Betsy Ross Drive, Santa Clara, CA 95054. Phone: 408/327-9000. Fax: 408/327-9010. Email: info@dynamicpictures.com. Toll-free: 800/464-3348. Visit Dynamic Pictures on the web at www.dynamicpictures.com . CONTACT: Catapult Partners (media contact) Virginia Henderson, 650/524-1720 virginia@catapultinc.com or Dynamic Pictures Inc. (corporate contact) Danny Shapiro, 408/969-2107 danny@dynamicpictures.com |
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