Server: Microsoft-IIS/2.0 Date: Thu, 20 Nov 1997 20:50:40 GMT Content-Type: text/html Accept-Ranges: bytes Last-Modified: Tue, 11 Nov 1997 15:18:12 GMT Content-Length: 5293 World's First Embedded SDRAM 3D

World's First Embedded SDRAM 3D Mobile Graphics From Trident

Cyber9520™ Embeds 100MHz SDRAM on AGP Multimedia Flat-Panel Controller With Fastest Single-Cycle Graphics Engine

Mountain View, Calif.-Nov. 11, 1997: Trident Microsystems Inc. today announced the world's first high-performance embedded 3D AGP multimedia flat-panel controller, the Cyber9520. Trident once again leads the graphics industry with the latest technology.
This highly integrated design, based on an advanced single-cycle 3D graphics engine with 2MB of embedded 100MHz synchronous DRAM, provides many unique features to the mobile platform. The Cyber9520™
brings together the best-of-breed features in 2D, 3D and MPEG2/1 acceleration and power management. It provides facilities for videoconferencing/dual display and remains the company's strongest showcase of its proprietary rCADE3DÖ, TrueVideor and Multiview technologies.
"This is the world's first high-performance embedded 3D graphics accelerator, developed in collaboration between Trident and Samsung. It is the only 3D embedded device available today to incorporate an advanced 3D graphics engine for arcade-quality 3D performance that the mobile market demands," said Frank Lin, president and CEO of Trident Microsystems. "The portable market represents a large part of our revenue, and we expect that our new embedded Cyber™
line of products will further strengthen our position in the growing portable PC market."

The Cyber9520™ is equipped with an advanced single-cycle 3D graphics
engine based on Trident's rCADE3D technology. Some of the 3D features include Z-buffering, Gouraud shading, alpha-blending, specular lighting, fog effect and dithering. It supports Microsoft's D3D level 3 and offloads major 3D tasks from the CPU. To further accelerate 3D and 2D functions, the new device has an enhanced AGP interface that supports 66/133MHz AGP with sideband support to allow high-speed and high-quality texture fetching from system memory.
The Cyber9520™
provides dual / simultaneous display, which permits the
user to have multiple views on a single flat

panel or on the flat panel and CRT or television under both Win95 and Win98. The device accommodates various sources of graphics with different refresh rates, resolutions or color depths. The dual video can display simultaneously two live video windows that are fully scaleable and independent of each other, as in a live videoconferencing situation where remote and local video streams have to be handled. The integrated TrueVideo processor and capture engine enhance the dual display apertures on the PCI bus, enabling graphic and video data to be transported simultaneously without software involvement.
Unlike the majority of portable devices on the market today, the Trident low-power cell design chip has flexible and extensive mobile power management capabilities. Eight methods for power saving have been implemented, including the 2D/3D graphic engines dynamically clock down without software control, and function blocks can be independently clocked down through register controls and pins. AGP and PCI power management are also implemented. Mini-driver function calls are used to support ACPI.
Trident Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ: TRID), with headquarters in Mountain View, California, designs, develops and markets graphics controllers and multimedia integrated circuits for PCs. Trident's products are sold through a network of OEMs, original design manufacturers and system integrators worldwide.

Trident and TrueVideo are registered trademarks of Trident Microsystems, Inc.
rCADE3D and Cyber and Cyber9520™
are trademarks of Trident Microsystems, Inc. All other trademarks used herein are the property of their respective owners.

For more information contact:
Peter Brown Tel: (415) 943 3761 FAX: (415) 938 3772 pbrown@tridmicr.com