VisionTek Announces Capacity To Quickly Produce New Graphic Cards Based On the NVIDIA GeForce 256.PALM SPRINGS, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Aug. 31, 1999-- Today at the Intel Developers Forum in Palm Springs, Calif., VisionTek, one of the nation's leading manufacturers and suppliers of value-added peripheral and memory products, announced it is one of the first companies with the ability to engineer and manufacture a new graphics accelerator A display adapter that performs a specialized set of graphics functions to render an image on screen. Today, all display adapters provide basic rendering functions in hardware, but many have graphics processing units (GPUs) that are sophisticated computers. for the latest NVIDIA Corp. video chip, the GeForce 256(tm) 3D graphics processing unit See GPU. (GPU GPU: see secret police. (Graphics Processing Unit) A specialized logic chip devoted to rendering 2D or 3D images. Display adapters contain one or more GPUs for fast graphics rendering. ). Rounding out VisionTek's full line of graphics accelerator cards powered by NVIDIA graphics processors, the new VisionTek GeForce 256-based graphics accelerator will be able to deliver more complex, lifelike images, enhanced artificial intelligence and increased physics than ever before possible on a PC. "Because of our long term relationship with NVIDIA and our core competency A core competency is something that a firm can do well and that meets the following three conditions specified by Hamel and Prahalad (1990):
"Our OEM-focused business model for graphic products, our price/performance ratio In economics and engineering, the price/performance ratio refers to a product's ability to deliver performance, of any sort, for its price. For instance, if you have a whole day to travel 100 km, spending $50 to do the journey in two hours is a better price/performance ratio than and our dedication to quality makes VisionTek a premier supplier to work with to quickly take advantage of all the GeForce 256 has to offer." "We are pleased to have VisionTek as a delivery-to-market partner for the GeForce 256 GPU because of their memory expertise, proven success in the 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 market, and aggressive time-to-market advantages," said Jeff Fisher Jeffrey Michael Fisher (born February 25, 1958) is an American football head coach, currently the head coach of the Tennessee Titans of the National Football League. With the resignation of Pittsburgh's Bill Cowher[1], Fisher now has the longest tenure as head coach with , NVIDIA vice president of sales. A longtime NVIDIA products supplier for the OEM and channel markets, VisionTek engineers and manufactures the full product line of NVIDIA cards including TNTA TNTA Tamil Nadu Tennis Association TNTA Taipei National Tax Administration (Ministry of Finance) TNTA Texas Nature Tourism Association TNTA trinitrotriazidobenzene TNTA Teoría de la Nebulosa Tubular Anillada , TNT TNT: see trinitrotoluene. TNT in full trinitrotoluene Pale yellow, solid organic compound made by adding nitrate (−NO2) groups to toluene. 2 Model-64, Vanta and TNT2 Pro-based accelerators. "We're currently sampling to OEMs VisionTek boards powered by NVIDIA's GeForce 256," said Tony Grasso, VisionTek director of OEM sales. "We're already seeing demand in the OEM market for our product based on this red hot graphics processor." "VisionTek has seen explosive growth in our graphics cards production over the past year. With our full line of NVIDIA graphics card availability, we're on pace to sell over one million NVIDIA graphics cards by the end of this year," said Ric Lewis, VisionTek executive vice president of business development. One of the nation's leading manufacturers and suppliers of value-added peripheral and memory products, VisionTek has been supplying memory to the OEM market since 1988 and has been one of the fastest growing players in the graphics market place since 1997. The company has won quality and service awards/certifications from leading OEMs, and its quality processes are 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. 9001 certified. VisionTek's memory and peripheral products are sold through authorized VisionTek resellers and distributors, including distributor partners Ingram Micro Ingram Micro, Inc. NYSE: IM a Fortune 100 company founded in 1979 and based in Santa Ana, California. It is the world’s largest technology distributor and a leading technology sales, marketing and logistics company. and Pinacor. Available later this fall, the new VisionTek GeForce 256-based graphics accelerator will come with a three-year warranty and lifetime technical support. For more information on VisionTek's memory and graphics products, call 800-726-9695, or visit the company's web site at http://www.visiontek.com/. About VisionTek VisionTek, based in Gurnee, Ill., is a leading manufacturer, developer and supplier of value-added memory, graphics and peripheral product solutions for OEMs, electronics manufacturers, IS professionals and their channel partners. The company delivers guaranteed-compatible desktop, notebook, server and printer products that extend the useful life of technology investments. VisionTek's unique ServicePlus program provides complete end user support coverage for VisionTek memory installed in any OEM system serviced by any third-party company in the U.S. The company is ISO 9001 certified ensuring the highest standards for quality in design, manufacturing, testing and delivery. VisionTek products are installed in systems from leading manufacturers and are available through leading distributors and resellers. VisionTek, 1175 Lakeside Drive, Gurnee, IL, 60031, 847-360-7500 or 800-726-9695. Tek Support: 800-360-7173. Http://www.visiontek.com/. Brand names and product names mentioned herein may be trademarks and/or registered trademarks of their respective companies. Resellers determine their own pricing which may or may not be higher than stated prices. |
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