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3D Labs is the workstation graphics authority, supplying its award-winning Oxygen and Wildcat 3D graphics cards to professionals in Computer Aided Design (CAD), Digital Content Creation (DCC), and visual simulation markets. 3Dlabs®, Inc. Ltd, a wholly-owned subsidiary of Creative Technology Ltd. (NASDAQ:CREAF), today introduced two new Wildcat4 products into its high- and ultra high-end Wildcat® professional graphics accelerator line to increase the performance and visual quality of AGP 8x-based |Continued Below|

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3DL-VX1_R	3Dlabs Oxygen VX1 32MB AGP Video Card	Specifications 3DLabs Oxygen VX1 AGP Video Card Oxygen VX1 uses the new 3Dlabs® GLINT® R3 workstation graphics processor to deliver genuine, industrial-strength graphics for the same price as a games-only board. Oxygen VX1 boosts the productivity of design professionals with best-of-class 2D and 3D performance GLINT R3 Rasterization Processor Virtual Texture memory management unit 256MB Virtual Texture address space Texture Unit with single pass, multi-texture capability Integrated 300MHz RAMDAC High-speed 128-bit Memory interface 7 independent DMA engines 2D/3D Raster Engine Integrated SVGA Controller Memory 32MB of unified SDRAM framebuffer, Z-buffer and texture memory Up to 256MB of host memory used as a Virtual Texture store Display True color resolutions up to 1920x1200 (or 2048x1536 double-buffered and 32-bit Z, with driver support 4Q99) 60Hz-120Hz screen refresh rates Softimage-compliant 8-bit double-buffered overlay planes DDC2B support on all operating systems Professional 3D Render	$106.40
3DL-OX_VX1	3Dlabs Oxygen VX1 32MB AGP Video Card	Specifications 3DLabs Oxygen VX1 AGP Video Card GLINT R3 Rasterization Processor Virtual Texture memory management unit 256MB Virtual Texture address space OEM package Texture Unit with single pass, multi-texture capability Integrated 300MHz RAMDAC High-speed 128-bit Memory interface 7 independent DMA engines 2D/3D Raster Engine Memory 32MB of unified SDRAM framebuffer, Z-buffer and texture memory Up to 256MB of host memory used as a Virtual Texture store Display True color resolutions up to 1920x1200 (or 2048x1536 double-buffered and 32-bit Z, with driver support 4Q99) 60Hz-120Hz screen refresh rates Softimage-compliant 8-bit double-buffered overlay planes Professional 3D Rendering Complete OpenGL 1.2 functionality in silicon Up to 256MB texture space 2048x2048x32 maximum individual texture size	$106.40

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workstations. The new Wildcat4™ 7210 and Wildcat4 7110 graphics accelerators, available next month from leading OEM systems manufacturers, deliver up to 32 percent higher graphics performance than any other currently shipping card used for high-end CAD and DCC, advanced video compositing, and HDTV editing. “Design professionals working in graphics-intensive environments can step-up to the Wildcat4 and get the same great features and quality of the Wildcat III, but with impressive increases in performance and AGP 8x interface support,” said Jerry Peterson, executive vice president and general manager of 3Dlabs workstation division. “The increased bandwidth of the AGP 8x bus coupled with Wildcat4 will significantly enhance 3D visualization on the desktop. It doesn’t get any better or faster than this.” Wildcat4 technology takes complete advantage of the new AGP 8x interface standard, transferring 2GB of graphics information per second between the graphics card and system. The Wildcat4 architecture also combines geometry and raster engines into a single, high-performance, high-bandwidth, integrated processor for today’s best professional graphics performance on the desktop. The Wildcat4 graphics products are available next month in leading systems running Microsoft® Windows® 2000 and Windows™ XP. Both cards feature custom drivers for AutoCAD and 3ds max™. 3Dlabs also plans to introduce its own 3D-optimized Linux® drivers for the Wildcat4 family.

A board that plugs into a personal computer to give it display capabilities. The display capabilities of a computer, however, depend on both the logical circuitry (provided in the video adapter) and the display monitor. A monochrome monitor, for example, cannot display colors no matter how powerful the video adapter. Many different types of video adapters are available for PCs. Most conform to one of the video standards defined by IBM or VESA. Each adapter offers several different video modes. The two basic categories of video modes are text and graphics. In text mode, a monitor can display only ASCII characters. In graphics mode, a monitor can display any bit-mapped image. Within the text and graphics modes, some monitors also offer a choice of resolutions. At lower resolutions a monitor can display more colors. Modern video adapters contain memory, so that the computer's RAM is not used for storing displays. In addition, most adapters have their own graphics coprocessor for performing graphics calculations. These adapters are often called graphics accelerators. A type of video adapter that contains its own processor to boost performance levels. These processors are specialized for computing graphical transformations, so they achieve better results than the general-purpose CPU used by the computer. In addition, they free up the computer's CPU to execute other commands while the graphics accelerator is handling graphics computations. The popularity of graphical applications, and especially multimedia applications, has made graphics accelerators not only a common enhancement, but a necessity. Most computer manufacturers now bundle a graphics accelerator with their mid-range and high-end systems. Aside from the graphics processor used, the other characteristics that differentiate graphics accelerators are: memory : Graphics accelerators have their own memory, which is reserved for storing graphical representations. The amount of memory determines how much resolution and how many colors can be displayed. Some accelerators use conventional DRAM, but others use a special type of video RAM (VRAM), which enables both the video circuitry and the processor to simultaneously access the memory. bus : Each graphics accelerator is designed for a particular type of video bus. As of 1995, most are designed for the PCI bus. register width: The wider the register, the more data the processor can manipulate with each instruction. 64-bit accelerators are already becoming common, and we can expect 128-bit accelerators in the near future.

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