Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Established in 1987, Trident gained a reputation for selling inexpensive (for the time) but slow SVGA components. Many OEMs built add-in-boards using Trident VGA chipsets. As the PC graphics market shifted from simple framebuffer displays (basic VGA color monitor and later multi-resolution SVGA output) to more advanced 2D hardware acceleration such a BitBLT engine and color-space conversion ...
The S3 ViRGE (Video and Rendering Graphics Engine [1]) graphics chipset was one of the first 2D/3D accelerators designed for the mass market. Introduced in 1996 by then graphics powerhouse S3, Inc. , the ViRGE was S3's first foray into 3D-graphics.
S3's first 3D accelerator chips, the ViRGE series, controlled half of the market early on but could not compete against the high end 3D accelerators from ATI, Nvidia, and 3Dfx. [4] In some cases, the chips performed worse than software-based solutions without an accelerator. [5] As S3 lost market share, their offerings competed in the mid-range ...
32-bit GUI accelerator with basic DOS support; Limited VESA VBE support; Support for 15 bpp (bits per pixel), 16 bpp and 24 bpp colour modes added; Video memory: 1 or 2 MiB DRAM or VRAM; Memory interface: 64-bit; Port: ISA, EISA, VLB, PCI, MCA; Integrated VGA core; 100% compatible with IBM 8514/A; The Mach 32 chip was used on the following ATI ...
The S3 Trio range were popular video cards for personal computers and were S3's first fully integrated graphics accelerators. As the name implies, three previously separate components were now included in the same ASIC: the graphics core, RAMDAC and clock generator. The increased integration allowed a graphics card to be simpler than before and ...
The Mystique was a 64-bit 2D GUI and video accelerator (MGA1064SG) with 3D acceleration support. Mystique has " Matrox Simple Interface " (MSI) rendering API . It was one of many early products by add-in graphics board vendors that attempted to achieve good combined 2D & 3D performance for consumer-level personal computers.
Cirrus Logic – sold its video chip assets; Integrated Information Technology – reverted to a video-conferencing solutions company, and then later a VoiP service provider; PowerVR – focusing on mobile graphics technologies; Realtek – no longer makes graphics chips; Silicon Integrated Systems (SIS) – sold its video chip assets to XGI
The video core in the SiS 630/730 is based on the 128-bit SiS 305. The VGA core is capable of using either its own dedicated local memory (giving a 128-bit memory interface) or taking a chunk out of system memory (usually configurable from between 8 MB to 64 MB, giving 64-bit memory interface).