Tseng Labs Ships New ET6100 Enhanced Version of its Award-Winning ET6000.NEWTOWN, Pa.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 17, 1997--Tseng Labs, Inc. (National Market:TSNG) today announced the availability of the ET6100, an enhanced version of its 128-bit ET6000 2D Graphics and Multimedia Engine. The ET6100 features an integrated 175MHz (MegaHertZ) One million cycles per second. It is used to measure the transmission speed of electronic devices, including channels, buses and the computer's internal clock. A one-megahertz clock (1 MHz) means some number of bits (16, 32, 64, etc. VGA-compatible LUT-DAC and delivers increased display bandwidth to support additional high resolution modes. These new modes include 1280x1024 16-bit at 75Hz, 1024x768 24- bit at 85Hz and 1600x1200 in 8 and 16-bit pixel depths. The ET6100 was demonstrated at the recent Computex trade show in Taiwan, and is targeted at feature-rich entertainment solutions using Tseng's companion VPR VPR Vice Provost for Research VPR Virtual PPI Reflectoscope VPR Voluntary Price Reduction VPR Value Price Reliability (Best Buy brand) VPR Vendor Price Reduction VPR Valve Protection Ring (gas cylinder collar) 6100 Video Processor or a high-performance, dedicated 3D processor such as the PowerVR from NEC (NEC Corporation, Tokyo, www.nec.com, www.necus.com) An electronics conglomerate known in the U.S. for its monitors. In Japan, it had the lion's share of the PC market until the late 1990s (see PC 98). NEC was founded in Tokyo in 1899 as Nippon Electric Company, Ltd. Electronics. The recently announced Apocolypse 5D from Videologic features the ET6100 and the PowerVR PCX (1) A bitmapped graphics file format that handles monochrome, 2-bit, 4-bit, 8-bit and 24-bit color and uses RLE to achieve compression ratios of approximately 1.1:1 to 1.5:1. Images with large blocks of solid colors compress best under the RLE method. See PC Paintbrush. 2 to generate an unbeatable combination of Windows 95, DOS and Direct3D performance for today's demanding business applications and advanced 3D game titles. "Many of the current crop of combination graphics cards force the end user to compromise between good 2D/poor 3D and average 3D/poor 2D," said Kevin Dale, Vice President of Sales and Marketing for Videologic Multimedia Systems. "The Apocolypse 5D delivers outstanding performance in both 2D and 3D, and for the first time gives users a combo solution without compromise." Tseng currently offers 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 reference designs based on the ET6100 and VPR6100 that provide TV-in-a-window with on-board TV tuner and TV-out capabilities using a discrete PAL/NTSC encoder, and is working with third parties to create turn-key solutions offering additional features such as high-quality 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. playback and Broadcast PC support. The ET6100 provides high quality scaling and de-interlacing of broadcast TV and DVD video streams to deliver crisp images for full screen or windowed Win´dowed a. 1. Having windows or openings. displays. Tseng's proven Multi-Port Cache manages multiple high bandwidth data streams to ensure that the incoming TV or DVD images suffer no loss of video data, even in high-resolution display modes. A high-speed, synchronous Multibank DRAM See MDRAM. (MDRAM (Multibank DRAM) An earlier type of dynamic RAM chip from MoSys, Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (www.mosys.com) that was available in 256KB increments. It enabled embedded applications with fixed memory requirements to have exactly the amount of RAM they need. ) interface produces net bandwidth in excess of 500 Mbytes/sec to handle even the most demanding applications. Robust DirectDraw support allow OEMs to take advantage of these features efficiently to deliver rich Windows 95 multimedia solutions supporting Microsoft's Simply Interactive PC (SIPC (Simply Interactive PC) An earlier umbrella term from Microsoft and Intel for a PC that works like a home appliance. For example, it has a sealed case, uses external connectors for expansion and boots in just a couple of seconds. ) initiative. The ET6100 is pin and software compatible with the ET6000, and will be available to support production customers in Q3. Founded in 1983, Tseng Labs, Inc. is a leading manufacturer of graphics and video processors. The Company is headquartered in Newtown, Pa., and can be reached (215) 968-0502 or (215) 860-7713 via fax. Please visit the Tseng Labs web site at http://www.tseng.com. -0- Note: All forward looking information are estimates of Tseng Labs, Inc.'s management and are subject to various risks and uncertainties that may influence the Company's development efforts, products and technologies and other risks as detailed from time to time in the Company's SEC reports and filings. Note to editors: Tseng, ET6000, ET6100 and VPR6000 are trademarks of Tseng Labs, Inc. Microsoft, Windows, DirectDraw and Direct3D are either registered trademarks or trademarks of Microsoft Corp. in the United States and/or other countries. All other trademarks are owned by their respective manufacturers. CONTACT: Mitch Paris Tseng Labs, Inc. 215/968-0502 e-mail:mitch.paris@tseng.com |
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