NEC Technologies chooses Alliance ProMotion for new multimedia PCs.SAN JOSE, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Sept. 21, 1995--Alliance Semiconductor Corp. announced today 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. Technologies Inc. has chosen Alliance's ProMotion-6422 video graphics accelerator for the new Ready multimedia PC systems for family, entertainment and home office use. ProMotion's multimedia acceleration gives the new NECT (NEC Technologies, Inc.) The name of the former North American subsidiary of NEC that specialized in monitors, data projectors and printers. For more information, visit www.necdisplay.com. See NEC. systems full-screen, near full-motion video playback capability for MPEG-1 and other video formats, along with fast 64-bit graphics and games acceleration under Windows 95. "Today's consumers demand full-screen video and realistic playback," said Murali Dharan, vice president of consumer PCs at NEC Technologies. "Our new Ready multimedia computers with ProMotion-6422 provide this capability. We are pleased to work with Alliance Semiconductor to offer the best possible multimedia systems for the home and home office." "The Ready series has impressive specs. Beyond power and features, its thoughtful design touches, like color coded cables and built-in sound card, make it a pleasure to set up and use," said Sid Agrawal, vice president of marketing at Alliance. "We are delighted that NEC Technologies has selected Alliance ProMotion for this exciting new product family." NEC promotes the Ready line as "the ultimate in multimedia computing," featuring powerful Pentium processors, high-quality, fully-integrated multimedia hardware and pre-loaded software for exceptional power and ease-of-use. For fast and crystal clear color video, the Ready systems offer 64-bit graphics with built-in support for MPEG-1 motion video acceleration and up to 2MB video RAM. Other built-in features include a quad-speed CD-ROM drive, hand-held remote control, home telephone center, SRS SRS, SRS-A see slow-reacting substance. 3-D surround sound, suspend/resume, and infrared data transfer. Pre-loaded software includes the Windows 95 operating system, along with an assortment of applications for education, entertainment, surfing the Internet, managing household finances and managing a home office right out of the box. The new models are available now at leading retailers including Circuit City, CompUSA, Office Depot and selected regional outlets. ProMotion-6422 is a high-performance, 64-bit integrated Windows accelerator with built-in hardware acceleration for MPEG-1 motion video playback and scaling. ProMotion is designed to seamlessly accelerate graphics and multimedia applications under Microsoft's Windows 95, Windows 3.X and other operating environments. ProMotion-6422 accelerates Windows displays up to 1280 x 1024 resolution at 8 bits per pixel (hardware, graphics) bits per pixel - (bpp) The number of bits of information stored per pixel of an image or displayed by a graphics adapter. The more bits there are, the more colours can be represented, but the more memory is required to store or display the image. , and up to 1024 x 768 resolution at 24 bits per pixel truecolor. It features a 64-bit internal graphics engine, PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). Local Bus or VESA (Video Electronics Standards Association, Milpitas, CA, www.vesa.org) A membership organization founded in 1989 that sets interface standards for the PC, workstation and computing environments. Note the following VESA standards following this entry. VLBus host interface, and support for 1 to 4 megabytes of DRAM memory. Even with just 1 megabyte of display memory, it can accelerate full-screen 1024 x 768 x 8-bit or 800 x 600 x 16-bit graphics and motion video playback. Headquartered in Boxborough, Mass., NEC Technologies Inc. is a leading manufacturer of computers and peripherals for the North American North American named after North America. North American blastomycosis see North American blastomycosis. North American cattle tick see boophilusannulatus. market. Award-winning product lines include Image, PowerMate, Express/II and Ready systems products, RISC-based workstations and servers, Versa Versa Versatile System Architecture (Genrad) notebook computers, the MultiSync X Series desktop monitors and professional presentation products, Silentwriter and SuperScript Any letter, digit or symbol that appears above the line. For example, 10 to the 9th power is written with the 9 in superscript (109). Contrast with subscript. printers and MultiSpin CD-ROM readers. NEC Technologies Inc. is a subsidiary of NEC Corp. Alliance Semiconductor Corp., based in San Jose, is a leading worldwide supplier of high performance memories and related products. Alliance designs, develops, manufactures and markets CMOS (Complementary Metal Oxide Semiconductor) Pronounced "c-moss." The most widely used integrated circuit design. It is found in almost every electronic product from handheld devices to mainframes. VLSI VLSI: see integrated circuit. (1) (Very Large Scale Integration) Between 100,000 and one million transistors on a chip. See SSI, MSI, LSI and ULSI. (2) (VLSI Technology, Inc., Tempe, AZ, www.semiconductors. products using the latest manufacturing technologies, with feautres sizes down to 0.5-micron. The company markets its high performance products to the desktop and portable computing, networking, telecommunications and instrumentation industries. CONTACT: Alliance Semiconductor Corp., San Jose Spencer Greene, 408/383-4900 sgreene@nimbus.com or NEC Technologies Micael Wong, 415/528-5875 mwong@nectech.com |
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