Newsgroup: it.comp.hardware.video-3d
Titolo: PowerVR 250

I chip PowerVR destinati al mercato europeo saranno di produzione
italiana!!!!
La ST Microeletronics ha siglato un accordo di Partnership con
Videologic e NEC per produrre i chip della serie PowerVR.
Finalmente qualcosa di italiano... 
Sidewinder

Ma davvero la STMicroeletronics è italiana?
Cavolo, se è vero è un altro buon motivo per comprare il Neon250, sempre
sperando che il Dreamcast prenda piede in Europa come in Giappone,
altrimenti saranno pochi a sviluppare giochi in SGL, la 3DFX ancora
regna sovrana......purtroppo.
Sidewinder ha scritto:
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Ecco la press-release:
VideoLogic Partners with STMicroelectronics to Extend PowerVR 
         Technology in PC and Digital Consumer Markets
 
         8 April 1999 WinHEC, Los Angeles, CA.  VideoLogic - the
international 
         company that develops, designs and supplies market-leading
2D/3D 
         graphics accelerator and audio products - today announced
that it has 
         agreed a partnership with STMicroelectronics which will
license 
         VideoLogic's PowerVR 2D/3D graphics technology for the
development of 
         a range of high performance PC graphic and video accelerators
 
         ST has already had extensive success in the PC graphics
market, 
         shipping over 5 million PC 3D graphics chips to customers
worldwide. 
         PowerVR will enable ST to offer a leadership 3D roadmap to
its digital 
         consumer customers, a market where ST is already the world's
leading 
         supplier of MPEG-2 decoder chips and ICs for digital set-top
boxes. 
 
         Two generations of PowerVR technology have already been
produced by 
         VideoLogic and existing partner, NEC Corporation and PowerVR
chips 
         supplied by NEC are used by Sega in its Dreamcast games
console and 
         Naomi arcade system. 
 
         The range of PC graphics and video accelerators under
development by 
         ST and VideoLogic will extend the breakthrough performance
and 
         superior image quality of PowerVR to a larger mainstream PC
market.
 
         Says Hossein Yassaie, president and CEO, VideoLogic: "ST's
excellence 
         in manufacturing, process technology and the video graphics
market are 
         a significant new asset to PowerVR and will further extend
the 
         availability of this innovative technology to the PC
audience. The 
         combination of ST's strengths and VideoLogic's PowerVR
technology will 
         give PC users everywhere access to the best in 3D graphics."
 
         Says Tim Chambers, VP & general manager of ST's Graphics
Product 
         Division: "Winning graphics technology continues to evolve at
a 
         phenomenal rate through use of innovative architectures and 
         algorithms, while maintaining full compliance with existing
standards 
         and driving new ones. We need the best performing graphics
solution 
         for our PC and Digital Consumer customers, and Videologic's
PowerVR 
         delivers. Selection of the best partner, with the best
technology was 
         critical to continue the success we have with today's
products. We are 
         therefore delighted with the agreement we are announcing with
         VideoLogic. The power and quality of the PowerVR architecture
can be 
         seen in the stunning visual quality of Sega's Dreamcast and
Noami 
         arcade systems"
 
         "Success in the PC graphics industry requires incredible
innovation, 
         fast time to market, access to the latest process
technologies, high 
         volume cost effective manufacturing, and market access," said
Dean 
         McCarron of Mercury Research. "Together, ST and VideoLogic
have the 
         necessary prerequisites for success."
 
         About PowerVR
         The PowerVR graphics technology for game consoles, personal
computers 
         and arcade systems achieves high-level performance and
superior image 
         quality at consumer price points. 
 
         PowerVR's unique architecture starts from the premise that
taking a 
         different algorithmic approach to 3D processing can eliminate
all 
         redundant processing and memory bottlenecks. By doing only
what is 
         absolutely needed, PowerVR keeps as much processing as
possible 
         on-chip, minimizing the bandwidth cost of accesses to off
chip memory. 
 
         PowerVR implements 'deferred texturing' where the hidden
surface 
         removal is completed in the first phase of the pipeline
before the 
         texturing, lighting and shading steps. This has the benefit
that only 
         the visible pixels to be finally drawn in the display memory
are 
         textured, shaded and lit, eliminating the redundant
processing 
         performed in conventional 3D systems.
 
         PowerVR is a 'display list renderer'. That is, all the
polygons for a 
         frame are batched together (into a display list) before being
         processed by the 3D rendering hardware. This is fundamentally
         different to the approach used by conventional systems. It
allows a 
         scene to be partitioned into small "tiles" or "regions" each
of which 
         is rendered independently, because the resulting region is
only a 
         small subset of the whole scene, PowerVR can implement
"on-chip hidden 
         surface removal" where the z-buffer memory (and the resulting
memory 
         bandwidth) is eliminated and the texture memory and frame
buffer 
         memory access are drastically reduced. This is achieved at
high depth 
         accuracy and allows the chip to run at full clock speed
without 
         waiting for the redundant external memory accesses that slow
down 
         conventional 3D systems.
 
         About STMicroelectronics
         STMicroelectronics (formerly known as SGS-THOMSON
Microelectronics) is 
         a global in-dependent semiconductor company with strong
European 
         roots, whose shares are listed on the New York Stock Exchange
(NYSE: 
         STM), the Bourse de Paris, and on the Milan Stock Exchange.
It 
         designs, develops, manufactures, and markets a broad range of
         semiconductor integrated circuits (ICs) and discrete devices
used in a 
         wide variety of mi-croelectronics applications, including 
         telecommunications systems, computer systems, consumer
products, 
         automotive products, and industrial automation and control
systems.  
         Further information on ST can be found at 
www.st.com
.
 
         About VideoLogic
         VideoLogic Group plc is an international company that
develops, 
         designs and supplies market-leading 2D/3D graphics
accelerator and 
         audio products for PCs, games consoles and arcade
entertainment 
         machines. Since it was founded in 1985, the company has
introduced, 
         directly or via licensing arrangements, a succession of
innovative 
         silicon chips and add-in boards, which have played a major
role in the 
         development of multimedia and computer-based entertainment
systems. 
         VideoLogic has its corporate headquarters in the United
Kingdom and is 
         publicly traded on the London Stock Exchange (FTSE:VDO).
Product 
         details, news, technical support and the latest software are
all 
         available on the VideoLogic web site at 
www.videologic.com
.
 
         Further details: 
         For VideoLogic:
         David Harold/Rebecca Miles         tel 
+44 (0)1923 260 511
 
         VideoLogic Ltd.                    fax 
+44 (0)1923 270 188
         Home Park Estate                   email
dha...@videologic.com
 
         Kings Langley
         Herts. WD4 8LZ
 
         For STMicroelectronics:
         Maria Grazia Prestini
         Agrate Brianza - Italy
         + 39 (0) 39 603 5901
         Fax: 39 (0) 39 603 6094
         Saint Genis-Pouilly - France
 
+ 33 4 5040 2532
         fax: 
+ 33 4 5040 2540
 
mariagrazi...@st.com
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Quindi, no. E' Francese. La SGS-Thomson e' francese.
Hanno una sede a Milano, quindi e' probabile che abbiano collegamenti
basilari in Italia, ma la produzione e progettazione dovrebbe essere
tutta in Francia.
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tutta in Francia.
Non e' totalmente francese, e' frutto di una fusione.
Cmq hanno un grosso impianto produttivo in italia (mi sembra in
sicilia) all'avanguardia  nella produzione di IC a livello europeo, e
vedrai che produrranno li il chip, che cmq progetta videologic/nec.
Ciao
ZiPpOooooooo

regna sovrana......purtroppo.
Non proprio al 100% La fabbirca e' italiana e si trova a Agrate (mi)
pero e' di proprieta della SGS-Thomson (da cui il ST)
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