Sunnyvale, CA- May 3, 2002- 3Dlabs today announced a ground-breaking "Visual Processing Architecture" that combines the architectural strengths and programmability of general-purpose CPUs with extreme levels of hardware parallelism. This architecture has been in development for two years and has significant patents pending, enables advanced software rendering techniques to be accelerated in real time to produce interactive imagery with stunning levels of realism. 3Dlabs expects to ship board-level products based on the first Visual Processing Unit (VPU), a chip codenamed the P10, during the third quarter of 2002.
"3Dlabs is changing the rules of the graphics industry with its Visual Processing Architecture. VPUs are capable of accelerating algorithms that are simply not executable on traditional graphics GPUs", said Jon Peddie, president of Jon Peddie research,a leading graphics and multimedia consultancy. "3Dlabs will be able to use the flexibility of the P10 VPU to not only deliver a compelling product that competes head-to-head with existing graphics boards, but also to fundamentally change what people expect from graphics hardware."
