New 16-bit version of Oki Advanced Products TrianGL 2D/3D graphics accelerator card for Windows NT drops entry cost to $1,690.

MARLBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 6, 1995--Oki Advanced Products Division of Oki America Inc., is now shipping a new, more economical 16-bit version of its amazingly fast 2D/3D graphics accelerator card with built-in GL language support.

It provides 1024x768x16 resolution, delivering up to 250,000 Gouraud 50-pixel shaded triangles per second, up to 1.4 million two-dimensional ten-pixel lines per second. The new Oki TrianGL(TM)16P 2D/3D accelerated graphics card is available for $1,690 (all prices suggested U.S. resale at participating resellers; inquiries invited).

Oki intends the TrianGL16P for cost-conscious graphics professionals who demand extremely fast performance but who do not require photorealistic 24-bit displays nor large workstation class display resolution (1280x1024) of the already-introduced TrianGL24P ($2,799).

The TrianGL16P is a half-length PCI bus card using a custom ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) rendering and drawing engine to provide both 2D and 3D acceleration. The ASIC connects to multiple banks of fast VRAM over an extra-wide 80-bit data bus. On-board VGA supports boot-mode video and standard application graphics requirements.

TrianGL delivers an unprecedented price/performance advantage for 3D applications using the OpenGL graphics API. With support already included in Microsoft's Windows NT, the OpenGL library has emerged as an industry standard graphics library for 3D visualization and modeling, CAD, and desktop multimedia. The TrianGL accelerator helps applications realize the fullest potential of OpenGL on inexpensive Windows NT host platforms. Oki supports TrianGL on PC and RISC PC platforms with host software drivers for Windows 3.1, Windows NT 3.5. OpenGL and DDI support are available for Intel, ALPHA and MIPS platforms. They also deliver or plan support for such other popular APIs as Microsoft Render Morphics, and for third-party software running OpenGL, like AutoCAD, MicroStation, IDEAS, ProEngineering, SoftImage, 3D Studio Max and others.

Oki Advanced Products Division, a division of Oki America Inc. (Hackensack, NJ), develops and markets innovative PC solutions and performance-driven PC graphics products. Oki America Inc., is the wholly owned U.S. subsidiary of Oki Electric Industry Co. Ltd., Japan's first telecommunication manufacturer, founded in 1881. Today, Oki Electric is a global manufacturer and marketer of telecommunications systems, information processing systems, and electronic devices, with more than 23,000 employees worldwide. Okidata (Mt. Laurel, NJ), Oki Semiconductor (Sunnyvale, CA) and Oki telecom (Atlanta) are all divisions of Oki America.

For more information contact Oki America Inc. Advanced Products Division, 100 Nickerson Road, Marlborough, MA 01752; 508/460-8776; fax: [phone]; World Wide Web http://www.oki.com. -0- TrianGL is a trademark of Oki America Inc. All other marks are the properties of their owners.

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