Integrated Micro Solutions takes leading-edge 3D technology to the Xtreme.

SAN FRANCISCO--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Jan. 6, 1997--

Next Generation TwinTurbo Multimedia Accelerators Announced

At Macworld Expo

The Integrated Micro Solutions booth at Macworld Expo (No. 2127, South Hall) will buzz with the news: TwinTurbo has gone Xtreme.

The same company that pushed the Macintosh pedal to the metal with the TwinTurbo 128M8 accelerator announces the new Xtreme-reZ3D board, based on next generation TwinTurbo technology.

Driving the performance of Xtreme-reZ3D is the TwinTurbo 128-3D graphics chip, the world's fastest multimedia controller. Featuring a true 128-bit memory architecture and a blazing 90Mhz internal clock, the TwinTurbo 128-3D propels Xtreme-reZ3D with its high speed EDO VRAM well beyond the graphics performance of competitive boards.

Xtreme-reZ3D provides an incredible 300 Mbyte/sec sustained image scroll rate, 5 Gbyte/sec sustained color fill rate and 1.2 million Gouraud shaded polygons/ sec 3D performance. The result is the worlds fastest 2D/3D accelerator.

"For the graphics professional, there is simply no cap on improving a computer's price/performance ratio. This audience in mind, we've set out to provide the absolute ultimate in high performance, high resolution, 2D, 3D, and video acceleration at a price that sets a new industry standard." said Christopher Knight, vice president of Graphics Marketing at Integrated Micro Solutions.

"At Macworld Expo, we're proud to announce Xtreme-reZ3D, the first graphics accelerator for Macintosh to totally integrate high performance 2D, 3D, and video and simultaneously maintain cost efficiency."

With support for QuickDraw 3D and QuickDraw 3D RAVE, the new board provides all the 3D processing power needed for professional 3D Macintosh applications Designed for the discriminating design professional, Xtreme-reZ3D combines alpha blending, mip mapping, bilinear & trilinear filtering and per pixel special effects for high quality, fast frame rate performance.

Xtreme reZ3D's 32M Gouraud shaded, bilinear filtered, perspectively correct pixel fills make this board ideal for professional 3D design authoring and visualization. At the same time with it's exceptional 2D and video performance it is the fastest accelerator on the market for graphics design professionals working in publishing, photo retouch and traditional graphic design.

Xtreme-reZ3D will be available in February 1997 with an SRP of $999.

Product features:

World Class 2D acceleration

-- 5+ Gbyte/sec color fill rate

-- 90 Mbyte/sec sustained image update rate (system to video memory

BLITs)

-- 300 Mbyte/sec sustained image scroll rate

-- 80 million pixel/sec line draw rate

-- Line Drawing engine, text engine and high speed fill engine

-- Integer hardware Pan/Zoom

World Class 3D acceleration

-- Over 32M pixels/sec fill rate

-- 1.2M Gouraud shaded triangles/sec

-- 300K texture mapped triangles/sec

-- Hardware rendering set-up - 3D triangle setup with polygon

decomposition - l4 DDA's

-- Hardware arithmetic stretch and X,Y interpolation 

-- True perspective rendering (vastly superior to perspective

correction)

-- 24 bit true color space on all .3D calculations

-- Bilinear & Trilinear Interpolation

-- Z buffer

-- Alpha Blending

-- Double buffering

-- Transparency, Fog & Highlighting

Unparalleled Video Acceleration

-- QuickTime video acceleration

-- 30 frames/sec playback @ any bit depth

-- Bilinear (X&Y) scaling in hardware

-- 4 tap filtering

-- Scaling from .5x to 4x in 1/65k increments

-- Internal YUV-RGB color space conversion 

-- Support for YVU9, YVU12, YUYV4:2:2 formats

-- Conversion and scaling in BLIT engine for 3D video mapping

-- MPEG-1 & MPEG-2 SW assist

-- Hardware Pan/Zoom

Specifications

-- Graphics controller: TwinTurbo 128-3D by Integrated Micro

Solutions

-- 8Mbyte EDO VRAM

-- 250Mhz RAM DAC 

-- Horizontal Frequency: 31.5Khz - 96Khz

-- Vertical Frequency (refresh rates): 60Hz - 100Hz

-- Video Connectors: DB-15, mini DB-15 (auto sensing)

-- Display Compatibility: 100% Quickdraw compatible

-- Software Drivers: Advanced Control Panel, Installer, QuickDraw,

QuickDraw 3D and QuickDraw 3D Accelerator Extensions

System Requirements

-- Any PCI based Power Macintosh or compatible system

-- 32MB RAM or higher

-- System 7.5.2 or higher

Warranty

-- 5 year limited warranty 

Integrated Micro Solutions is a world leading developer and manufacturer of 128-bit high performance graphics ASICs and controllers for PC and Macintosh computers, as well as ATM (asynchronous transfer mode) solutions, network interface cards, and switches. A privately-held company, Integrated Micro Solution offices are located at 2085 Hamilton Avenue, Third Floor, San Jose, Calif., 95125; Phone [phone]; Fax [phone].

For further press information regarding Integrated Micro Solutions, please contact Kristiana Ellis with Imagio at 206/625-0252, or by e-mail at [e-mail].

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