IBM Selects Trident Microsystems' Cyber9382 and Cyber9385 64-Bit LCD Controllers for New IBM ThinkPad 560ED and 760 ED/EL Notebooks; TrueVideo excellent video quality, graphics performance and responsive delivery schedules cited as key advantages in IBM's selection.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--July 30, 1996--Trident Microsystems, Inc. (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 : TRID TRID Training Requirement Identification Display TRID Transaction Identifier TRID Trident Display ) announced today that International Business Machines' newly introduced ultra-thin (1.5 inches), ultra-light (4.2 pounds) ThinkPad 560ED, and IBM's latest ThinkPad 760 ED/EL notebook series utilize Trident's 64-bit Cyber9382 and Cyber9385 LCD controllers. The new ThinkPad 560 notebook computer from IBM (International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY, www.ibm.com) The world's largest computer company. IBM's product lines include the S/390 mainframes (zSeries), AS/400 midrange business systems (iSeries), RS/6000 workstations and servers (pSeries), Intel-based servers (xSeries) has received rave reviews since its introduction a few weeks ago. Trident's LCD controllers are based on a 64-bit Graphics User Interface (GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. ) engine, and include such quality-enhancing features as TrueVideo, Trident's proprietary video display algorithm. Both new IBM ThinkPad 760 models offer IBM customers the key Trident innovation of TV-Out functionality, allowing users to simply attach the notebook to nearly any TV for use as a display. "The quality and performance of multimedia notebook PCs just got raised a notch," said Richard Silverman, Trident's Vice President of Marketing. "IBM's ThinkPad 760CD, judged by many as the best portable product of 1995, featuring our 32-bit Cyber9320 LCD controller, consistently won `best of show' at major industry gatherings. Now, with IBM's selection of Trident's 64-bit LCD controllers, their line of notebook PCs just got that much better and faster." More about Trident's Cyber9382 and Cyber9385 LCD Controllers Features Trident was the first graphics company to ship a powerful 64-bit LCD controller, and the first to port desktop functionality to notebook products. Trident's Cyber9382 and Cyber9385 high-performance 64-bit mixed-signal notebook graphics chips enable notebook PC systems to display desktop quality graphics while delivering multimedia features like MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). I/II, high resolution displays up to 1024x768 DSTN (1) (Dual-scan STN) An enhanced STN passive matrix LCD display. The screen is divided into halves, and each half is scanned simultaneously, thereby doubling the number of lines refreshed per second and providing a sharper appearance. and TFT (Thin Film Transistor) The term typically refers to active matrix screens on laptop computers. Active matrix LCD provides a sharper screen display and broader viewing angle than does passive matrix. See LCD and thin film. TFT - Thin Film transistor support at a high refresh rate at 3.3V. Its motion video capture port has a glueless interface for video decoders, dual apertures for simultaneous graphics and video access to display memory. Mixed color depth overlay provides true color video on any color depth of graphics. Trident's exclusive TrueVideo combines a proprietary edge recovery algorithm with horizontal and vertical interpolation interpolation In mathematics, estimation of a value between two known data points. A simple example is calculating the mean (see mean, median, and mode) of two population counts made 10 years apart to estimate the population in the fifth year. logic to virtually eliminate jagged edges, blocking and other video artifacts artifacts see specimen artifacts. that often result during playback of scaled MPEG video images. Trident's ZV port feature support will enable PCMCIA (Personal Computer Memory Card International Association, San Jose, CA, www.pcmcia.org) An international standards body and trade association that was founded in 1989 to establish a standard for connecting peripherals to portable computers. PCMCIA created the PC Card. See PC Card. devices to connect directly to a notebook's graphics accelerator without going through the PCMCIA host controller and the CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. . This offers a direct, high-speed data path that is vital for applications such as multimedia, videoconferencing and MPEG video that cannot be delivered over the existing PCI/ISA buses without sacrificing system bandwidth. Trident Microsystems, Inc., with headquarters in Mountain View, CA, designs, develops and markets integrated circuit graphics controllers and multimedia video processing chipsets for IBM-compatible PCs which significantly enhance graphics display. Trident products are sold through a network of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), original design manufacturers (ODMs) and system integrators worldwide. Forward-Looking Information The statements made herein regarding IBM's selection and shipping of products using Trident's Cyber9382 and Cyber9385 LCD controllers are forward-looking statements. The actual availability and sales of such products and Trident's sale of products to IBM could vary substantially as a result of a variety of factors, including the Company's ability to supply and support its customers, the ability of the Company's customers to manufacture and ship products incorporating the Company's products, as well as the availability of other products and resources. Further information regarding these and other risks is described from time to time in the Company's reports filed with the Securities Exchange Commission. -0- Note to Editors: Trident and TrueVideo are registered trademarks of Trident Microsystems, Inc. Cyber9382 and Cyber9385 are trademarks of Trident Microsystems, Inc. IBM, IBM ThinkPad 560ED, 760CD, ED and EL are trademarks of International Business Machines Corporation. CONTACT: Trident Microsystems, Inc. Richard F. Haas, 415/943-3757 or Morgen-Walke Associates San Francisco Suzanne Craig, Lisa Laukkannen, 415/296-7383 New York Elissa Grabowski, 212/850-5600 |
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