STB announces Velocity 128 3D multimedia accelerator at WinHEC '97.RICHARDSON, Texas--(BUSINESS WIRE)--April 8, 1997--STB Systems (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 :STBI) will unveil its Velocity 128 3D multimedia accelerator at the Windows Hardware Engineering Conference The Windows Hardware Engineering Conference (WinHEC) is the annual software developer-oriented trade show and business conference where Microsoft elaborates on its hardware plans for Microsoft Windows-compatible PCs. '97 (WinHEC '97) Tuesday. The Velocity 128 3D offers superior graphics and video power for business applications, enhanced 3D hardware for gaming and entertainment, and STB's Multimedia Hub Architecture for combining advanced multimedia technologies. "STB has been driving convergence technology since its infancy, and the Velocity 3D 128 has the feature-set convergence systems have needed to take them out of the study and into the living room," said Gary Kellar, STB's video product manager. "Its combination of professional-quality video, exceptional 2D performance and arcade-quality 3D rendering will make the Velocity 128 3D perfect for PCI- and AGP-based multimedia systems designed to be the entertainment center of the home." STB's new Velocity 128 3D delivers true 128-bit multimedia acceleration with full-speed polygon setup and pixel rendering for both PCI (1) (Payment Card Industry) See PCI DSS. (2) (Peripheral Component Interconnect) The most widely used I/O bus (peripheral bus). and Accelerated Graphics Port See AGP. (hardware, graphics) Accelerated Graphics Port - (AGP) A bus specification by Intel which gives low-cost 3D graphics cards faster access to main memory on personal computers than the usual PCI bus. (AGP) based systems. This powerful new accelerator combines high-level 3D performance with exceptional 2D graphics and video-quality features. Available with 4MB of high-speed SGRAM (Synchronous Graphics RAM) A type of dynamic RAM chip that is similar to the SDRAM technology, but includes enhanced graphics features for use with display adapters. video memory, the Velocity 128 3D incorporates a 203Mhz RAMDAC (Random Access Memory Digital to Analog Converter) The VGA controller chip that maintains the color palette and converts data from memory into analog signals for the monitor. RAMDAC - Random Access Memory Digital-to-Analog Converter supporting flicker-free refresh rates up to 160Hz. STB's Multimedia Hub Architecture The Velocity 128 3D will be the first multimedia accelerator to feature STB's Multimedia Hub Architecture, which is designed to support the influx of new multimedia intensive applications such as video conferencing, Digital Versatile Disk, digital satellite signal display technologies and convergence technologies. STB's new Multimedia Hub Architecture for PCI or AGP bus features a composite or S-Video port for video conferencing or camera input, S-Video output port for high-quality displays on editing or entertainment displays, composite video output for display on NTSC (National TV Standards Committee) The committee that developed the television standards for the U.S, which are also used in Canada, Japan, South Korea and several Central and South American countries. Both the committee and the standard are called "NTSC. or PAL monitors, and a comprehensive suite of multimedia controls. "STB's Multimedia Hub Architecture is the heart of the advanced multimedia system for 1997. Convergence technologies require an interface to combine live video signals with 2D/3D acceleration technologies, and the computer system's multimedia accelerator is ideal for this purpose," said J. Shane Long, vice president of sales and marketing at STB Systems. "STB's Multimedia Hub Architecture will provide the hardware connections to combine these technologies and the software controls to make them work together for a stunning mix of video, graphics and sound." Uncompromising 2D/3D Acceleration The Velocity 128 3D provides impressive cross-platform performance with optimized driver support for Windows 95, Windows NT 4.x, Windows 9x and NT 5.0 "Cairo." Powered by the all-new RIVA (Real-time Interactive Video & Animation) 128 graphics engine from NVIDIA, the Velocity 128 3D provides high-performance graphics, full-speed 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). 2 playback, optimized Direct-X gaming and entertainment, the bandwidth needed to explore emerging Internet virtual worlds, and high-end API support for CAD and visualization applications using OpenGL or Heidi interfaces. The Velocity 128 3D's RIVA 128 graphics engine incorporates a 5 GFLOPS See gigaFLOPS. GFLOPS - gigaflops floating-point setup engine to off-load 3D processing from the host CPU CPU in full central processing unit Principal component of a digital computer, composed of a control unit, an instruction-decoding unit, and an arithmetic-logic unit. for significantly higher frame rates and on-screen scene realism. Advanced Multimedia Features The Velocity 128 3D satisfies the growing demand for a high-performance multimedia accelerator with advanced video processing technologies being driven by the emergence of DVD DVD: see digital versatile disc. DVD in full digital video disc or digital versatile disc Type of optical disc. The DVD represents the second generation of compact-disc (CD) technology. , Intercast, video conferencing and other multimedia applications. It features scatter-gather DMA, color format conversion, scaling and filtering, and TV flicker-filtering to enhance digital video playback. Samples of the Velocity 128 3D will be available in May and are expected to begin shipping in June. Simply the Best! STB Systems designs, manufactures and sells multimedia adapters and other multimedia subsystem products for use primarily in desktop personal computers. STB has established a history of designing award-winning graphics controllers and writing specialized video drivers which provide maximum software performance and compatibility. STB is the second-largest supplier of multimedia accelerators worldwide, as ranked by International Data Corp. (IDC), and is registered as ISO (1) See ISO speed. (2) (International Organization for Standardization, Geneva, Switzerland, www.iso.ch) An organization that sets international standards, founded in 1946. The U.S. member body is ANSI. 9002 compliant. STB recently acquired Symmetric Inc., a leader in the professional-class 3D graphics market, and operates it as a wholly owned subsidiary Wholly Owned Subsidiary A subsidiary whose parent company owns 100% of its common stock. Notes: In other words, the parent company owns the company outright and there are no minority owners. . Founded in 1981 and with headquarters in Richardson, STB Systems also has facilities in Houston and El Paso, Texas; Eugene, Ore.; Juarez, Mexico; London; Paris; Belfast, Northern Ireland; and Munich, Germany. CONTACT: STB Systems Inc., Richardson Brian Burke, 972/234-8750, ext. 2113 bburke@stb.com www.stb.com |
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