S3 Multimedia Accelerator Selected by AT&T; AT&T Globalyst 720 and 730 PCs integrate S3's Vision968.SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 19, 1995--S3 Incorporated (NASDAQ NASDAQ in full National Association of Securities Dealers Automated Quotations U.S. market for over-the-counter securities. Established in 1971 by the National Association of Securities Dealers (NASD), NASDAQ is an automated quotation system that reports on : SIII), announced today that graphics for AT&T Global Information Solutions' Globalyst(TM) 720 and Globalyst 730 desktop PCs, are based on the S3(R) Vision968(TM) multimedia accelerator. The announcement marks the first integration of the S3 Vision968 directly on a PC motherboard. "AT&T's latest offering truly raises the standard for commercial desktop PCs," said Gary Johnson, S3 sr. vice president, multimedia and mobile products. "The Vision968 is a full-featured, integrated multimedia solution that offers users high-performance graphics acceleration and quality video acceleration. AT&T's decision to integrate the Vision968 directly on the motherboard will enable their customers to realize functionality that was once restricted to multimedia graphics professionals and desktop publishers." "The power business user wants an all-in-one system that runs their business applications with sophisticated graphics and handles their communications capabilities," said Rob Howe, vice president, worldwide PC marketing, AT&T Global Information Solutions. "By coupling S3's Vision968 with AT&T's powerful personal computing and communications (PC&C) capabilities, we are able to offer a new level of functionality and performance to our business desktop PC customers." AT&T The AT&T Global Information Solutions (GIS) Globalyst 720 and 730 take business multimedia to a new level with the S3 Vision968 chip. With this video chip, the Globalyst 720 and 730 let users display video clips to the full size of the screen and at resolutions of up to 1600 x 1200. Video acceleration provides natural movement and brilliant colors. The Globalyst 720 and 730 support 75 MHz and 100 MHz Intel(R) Pentium(TM) processors and will support 133 MHz in July. They also include 16-bit stereo audio and powerful messaging software. In addition, the Globalyst 730 can support dual Pentium processors to provide SMP (symmetrical multi-processing) capability. Both systems are available this month through AT&T GIS' direct and indirect sales channels and value-added retailers and range from $2,550 for a 75 MHz system, to around $6,700 for an SMP dual Pentium processor Globalyst 730. S3 Vision968 Meeting the needs of emerging multimedia applications, S3's Vision968 integrates an optimized 64-bit graphics engine with a sophisticated video playback engine, enabling complete multimedia playback capability with support for high-quality, full-screen software video playback at 30 FPS onto a single device. The S3 Vision968's video playback engine's multimedia capabilities include color space conversion Changing one type of color-encoded signal into another. Converting from RGB to YUV and back to RGB are common color space conversions when working with video formats (see YUV). Converting from the display color space (RGB) to the printer color space (CMYK) is another common example. , bilinear bi·lin·e·ar adj. Linear with respect to each of two variables or positions. Used of functions or equations. Adj. 1. bilinear - linear with respect to each of two variables or positions scaling, linear interpolation, filtering and dithering Simulating more colors and shades in a palette. In a monochrome system that displays or prints only black and white, shades of grays can be simulated by creating varying patterns of black dots. This is how halftones are created in a monochrome printer. . In addition, S3's full suite of software drivers have been enhanced for multimedia through built-in support for the Microsoft/Intel Display Control Interface (DCI) specification. The video-enabled Vision968 also provides direct support for leading industry standards such as Microsoft Video for Windows The name of Microsoft's first video playback implementation in Windows. Supporting the AVI movie format, Video for Windows (VfW) was installed separately in Windows 3.x, but was later built into Windows 95 and subsequent versions. (TM) and MPEG-1 through S3's Native-MPEG(TM), software MPEG (Moving Pictures Experts Group) An ISO/ITU standard for compressing digital video. Pronounced "em-peg," it is the universal standard for digital terrestrial, cable and satellite TV, DVDs and digital video recorders (DVRs). decoding solution. It also supports Indeo(TM) and CinePak(TM). The S3 Vision968, 64-bit integrated multimedia accelerator, features an internal 64-bit engine and external 64-bit data paths and supports from 1 to 8 MBytes of VRAM See video RAM. VRAM - video random-access memory . The Vision968 complies with the Green PC VESA Display Power Management Signaling See VESA DPMS. (DPMS See VESA DPMS. (hardware) DPMS - Display Power Management Signaling. ) protocol, interfaces to either the PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). local bus or the VL bus and is fully compatible with VGA and SVGA (Super VGA) A screen resolution of 800x600 pixels. Third-party vendors extended IBM's VGA display standard and were the first to use the term. SVGA has also referred to 1,024x768 resolutions. See PC display modes. . AT&T/S3 AT&T Global Information Solutions, manufacturers of the award winning Globalyst PC family that ranges from laptops to PC servers, is leading the world to PC&C. AT&T Global Information Solutions helps its customers better understand and serve their customers by more effectively getting, moving and using information. S3 Incorporated is dedicated to applying acceleration technology to create a natural PC interface. A publicly held company, S3 combines silicon and software to accelerate graphics and video for leading PC platforms and operating environments. CONTACT: S3 Incorporated Anne Banta or Andrew Logan, 408/980-5400 |
|
||||||||||||||
Printer friendly
Cite/link
Email
Feedback
Reader Opinion