New Oki Advanced Products TrianGL 24-bit 3D graphic accelerator card for PCI systems delivers workstation-level graphics, speed; its heart is a rendering ASIC.

MARLBOROUGH, Mass.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Dec. 6, 1995--Oki Advanced Products Division of Oki America Inc. is shipping its new photorealistic (24-bit) accelerated 3D graphics card with built-in GL language support and extraordinary speed.

This new card supports advanced software for design, modeling, rendering, image processing, animation, multimedia and other workstation-class, speed-critical, graphics-intensive, photorealistic applications. The new Oki TrianGL(TM)24P 2D/3D accelerated graphics card is available for $2,799 (all prices suggested U.S. resale at participating resellers; inquiries invited).

The TrianGL24P is the first single (full length) PCI slot high-performance 2D and 3D graphics accelerator that delivers full 1280x1024x24 resolution. At its heart, a custom ASIC (application-specific integrated circuit) rendering and drawing engine, provides both 2D and 3D acceleration. This unique chip connects to multiple banks of fast video RAM over an extra-wide 80-bit data bus, eliminating a common bottleneck. On-board VGA supports boot-mode video and standard application graphics requirements. TrianGL will deliver up to 250,000 Gouraud 50-pixel shaded triangles per second, and up to 1.4 million two-dimensional ten-pixel lines per second.

Its 12.5 MB of video RAM is organized into four banks, each operating independently to maximize the performance efficiency of the rendering ASIC. Eight utility planes support such board-specific video options as overlays, window types and RGB double buffering; two separate RGB buffers allow 24-bit true hardware double buffering for smooth, artifact-free animation. A dedicated independent 24-bit Z buffer performs hidden surface removal during 3D object rendering. For many drawing primitives, the ASIC can instruct all the memory banks to operate in parallel; for certain primitives, like vector drawing or triangle drawing, the ASIC sends address and color values to the appropriate memory banks in a pipelined, serial fashion. TrianGL's use of triangle drawing primitives gives the board a major performance advantage over other products which use simpler span primitives.

``We have focused TrianGL's development on the largely unmet needs of the power users who continue to migrate from expensive UNIX workstations to more affordable PC platforms,'' said Wes Shimanek, director of sales and marketing. ``Oki's TrianGL turns any Pentium, PentiumPro, or RISC PC into a 3D powerhouse at a fraction of a workstation's price.''

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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