NEC Corporation to Sell Dynamic Pictures Oxygen 202 Graphics Accelerators in Japan; New OEM Relationship with Leading Workstation Vendor Integrates Oxygen 3D Graphics Accelerator in NEC Express5800 Workstations.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)--May 18, 1997--Dynamic Pictures, Inc. today announced that NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Corporation and Dynamic Pictures have entered into an OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and relationship in which NEC will market and sell the award-winning Dynamic Pictures(TM) Oxygen(TM) 202 graphics accelerator A display adapter that performs a specialized set of graphics functions to render an image on screen. Today, all display adapters provide basic rendering functions in hardware, but many have graphics processing units (GPUs) that are sophisticated computers. card throughout Japan with the NEC Express5800(R) workstation line. "This OEM relationship solidifies our long-standing and valued relationship with NEC," said Dinesh Sharma, Dynamic Pictures' vice president and chief operating officer Chief Operating Officer (COO) The officer of a firm responsible for day-to-day management, usually the president or an executive vice-president. . "We are delighted that NEC has become the first leading workstation vendor to offer Oxygen 3D cards in Japan as an OEM, and as a result, supply its Japanese customers with the world's leading 3D graphics technology." "The Oxygen 202 3D accelerator reflects Dynamic Pictures' commitment to delivering workstation-class 3D performance at PC prices," said Kazuhiko Kobayashi, general manager of the Workstations and Servers Division at NEC Corp. "We chose to OEM Dynamic Pictures' acclaimed Oxygen technology because of its advanced graphics architecture and industry-leading software drivers. It is by far the best choice for performance-minded Express5800 users." Available today from NEC to customers throughout Japan, the Oxygen 202 card can be purchased as an option to the standard NEC Express5800/55 workstation configuration featuring single or dual Intel Pentium(R) II processors. Based on Dynamic Pictures' revolutionary new Oxygen chip - a highly scalable, pipelined rendering and texture mapping processor - the Oxygen 202 provides maximum 3D graphics performance while offering true-color, double buffered 3D graphics displays at resolutions up to 1280 x 1024 pixels, and 2D graphics resolutions up to 1600x1200 pixels. Upon its release in January, the Oxygen 202 took over the title of the industry's price-performance leader. The Dynamic Pictures Oxygen 3D Family is comprised of three models: the Oxygen 102, with 8 MB 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 16 MB of SDRAM and dual Oxygen chips rendering in parallel; and the Oxygen 402, with 32 MB of SDRAM and quad Oxygen chips all rendering in parallel. 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 Oxygen family has won more awards in 1997 than any other 3D graphics product line. The recent awards include 3D Design Magazine's Best of 1996 Award, New Media Magazine's 1997 Hyper Award for the best OpenGL accelerator, and DV Magazine's Award of Excellence. 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 . NEC Corporation, headquartered in Tokyo, Japan, is the world's leading global electronics company, with fiscal 1995 Net Sales Net Sales The amount a seller receives from the buyer after costs associated with the sale are deducted. Notes: This amount is calculated by subtracting the following items from gross sales: merchandise returned for credit, allowances for damaged or missing goods, freight (ending March 31, 1996) of 4,397 billion yen. The company manufactures and markets a wide range of products including: communications systems and equipment, computers and industrial electronic systems, and electron devices. CONTACT: Dynamic Pictures, Inc. Danny Shapiro, 408/969-2107 danny@dynamicpictures.com or Catapult Partners Carl Furry, 415/524-1720 furry@catapultinc.com |
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