Trident Introduces TGUI9682 UMA GUI+ Video Accelerator, Industry's First GUI Accelerator to Support UMA and TrueVideo Scaling; New 64-bit Windows 95/DirectDraw/ DirectVideo Accelerator Offers Unified Memory Architecture, UMA, and Scaleable Software Support for MPEG-1 and Live Video.MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Oct. 6, 1995--Trident Microsystems, Inc. (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 :TRID TRID Training Requirement Identification Display TRID Transaction Identifier TRID Trident Display ), announced today its new TGUI TGUI Timeline Graphical User Interface TGUI Traffic Management Advisor Graphical User Interface 9682 UMA (1) (Unlicensed Mobile Access) See GAN. (2) (Upper Memory Area) Memory in a PC between 640K and 1M. More relevant in the days of DOS, this region was broken into Upper Memory Blocks (UMB) reserved for video memory and other GUI (Graphical User Interface) A graphics-based user interface that incorporates movable windows, icons and a mouse. The ability to resize application windows and change style and size of fonts are the significant advantages of a GUI vs. a character-based interface. and video accelerator. This Windows 95 Graphical User Interface graphical user interface (GUI) Computer display format that allows the user to select commands, call up files, start programs, and do other routine tasks by using a mouse to point to pictorial symbols (icons) or lists of menu choices on the screen as opposed to having to (GUI) accelerator supports Unified Memory Architecture (UMA) and scaleable MPEG-1 display and acceleration for Microsoft's Windows 95 operating system, including DirectDraw and DirectVideo. The TGUI9682 integrated circuit provides Trident customers with a software MPEG decoder solution as an alternative for hardware 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, a technology supplied through Trident's recently announced TMVP TMVP Tamileela Makkal Viduthalai Pulikal (Sri Lanka) 9550 integrated circuit (see Sept. 4, 1995 release). With support for TrueVideo, Trident's proprietary image recovery technology, the TGUI9682 GUI accelerator provides high performance, edge smoothing MPEG display with broadcast television quality. The TGUI9682 GUI accelerator uses existing PC system memory rather than additional graphics memory to process video images. This support for UMA enables the graphics chip to deliver clearer, sharper images with minimal memory requirements. The TGUI9682 GUI and video accelerator is also engineered with Windows 95 acceleration support, providing DirectDraw/DirectVideo drivers for high performance features. The TGUI9682 GUI and video accelerator incorporates Trident's proprietary edge recovery technique TrueVideo to deliver superior video images in resolutions of up to 1024X768 and 75 Hz refresh rates. TrueVideo is currently the only technology enabling horizontal/vertical interpolation interpolation In mathematics, estimation of a value between two known data points. A simple example is calculating the mean (see mean, median, and mode) of two population counts made 10 years apart to estimate the population in the fifth year. when scaling real-time video. This edge smoothing algorithm virtually eliminates jagged edges, blocking and other blurred images, presenting a higher quality video playback than most other MPEG solutions. "Our TGUI9682 integrated circuit is the newest member of Trident's successful 64-bit GUI and video accelerator product line," said Rick Silverman, vice president of marketing. "The accelerator's Unified Memory Architecture makes it a more affordable solution for OEM (Original Equipment Manufacturer) The rebranding of equipment and selling it. The term initially referred to the company that made the products (the "original" manufacturer), but eventually became widely used to refer to the organization that buys the products and customers wishing to target markets like the multimedia home PC arena. Consumers can now afford more features and mass market innovations to enhance systems like Windows 95." Using Unified Memory Architecture (UMA), the TGUI9682 graphics chip operates by combining graphics and system memory to deliver graphics and video display. By using existing system memory rather than dedicated graphics memory the purchase of an additional 1-2MB of memory is not required. This offers potential savings to multimedia system manufacturers of up to $60 per system. The Windows 95 acceleration support provided within the TGUI9682 GUI accelerator offers font cache to accelerate Windows 95, page flipping, sprites, double buffering and color keys for game acceleration using DirectDraw. Using DirectVideo, the chip provides 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. (CSC), hardware scaling and overlay control for MPEG and video acceleration. The video port of the TGUI9682 chip interfaces directly to hardware MPEG and video decoders like Trident's own TMVP9550 integrated MPEG-1 decoder. Offering increased graphics performance levels nearly 15% higher than earlier Trident MPEG solutions, the TGUI9682 chip requires only 1-2MB EDO or DRAM, based on resolution rates. With a unit price of $30 in 10K quantities, the chip serves as a cost effective alternative for the PC manufacturer aiming to deliver high performance multimedia systems to consumers. Trident Microsystems, Inc., headquartered in Mountain View, designs, develops and markets integrated circuit graphics controllers and multimedia video processing chipsets for IBM-compatible PCs. Trident products are sold through a network of original equipment manufacturers (OEMs), original design manufacturers (ODMs) and system integrators worldwide. -0- Note to Editors: Trident, TGUI9682 and TMVP9550 are trademarks of Trident Microsystem, Inc. TrueVideo is a registered trademark of Trident Microsystems, Inc. Other trademarks are the property of their respective owners. CONTACT: Trident Microsystems, Inc. Mike Raghavan, 415/691-9211 x308 or Tsantes & Associates (PR counsel) Nancy Sheffield, 408/452-8700 or Morgen-Walke Associates (IR counsel) Douglas Sherk/Suzanne Craig/Lisa Laukkanen, 415/296-7383 Elissa Grabowski/Jill Ruja, 212/850-5600 |
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