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TRIDENT XP4™ EMBRACED BY FOUR PC GRAPHICS CARD MANUFACTURERS
High-End DX8.1/9.0 Graphics At Mainstream Prices
COMDEX, Las Vegas, November 18, 2002:
Trident Microsystems, Inc. (NASDAQ:TRID)
today announced that a new generation of 128Mbytes and 64Mbytes
graphics cards based on the XP4 will be available in production
from four well-known PC card manufacturers, including Chaintech
Computer Co., Ltd. (www.chaintech.com.tw),
Hightech Information Systems, Ltd. (www.hightech.com.hk),
Jaton Corporation (www.jaton.com)
and Jetway Information Co., Ltd. (www.jetway.com.tw).
Graphics cards based on the XP4 T3 will deliver high-quality
and performance graphics of DX8.1/9.0 with 128MBytes frame
buffer memory for only $99 MSRP (Manufacturers' Suggested
Retail Price) to the end-users. Graphics cards based on the
XP4 T2 with 64MBytes memory will be available at an even lower
price of $79 MSRP.
“We are very excited that the XP4 desktop family has been
selected by these four well-established PC card manufacturers.
This demonstrates strong market acceptance of our XP4 product
strategy in mainstream desktop graphics by offering the best
DX8.1/9.0 price performance for $99 MSRP,” said Frank Lin,
CEO and president of Trident. “In addition, the excellent
worldwide sales distribution networks of Chaintech, Hightech,
Jaton and Jetway will inevitably accelerate our market expansion
in channels all over the globe.”
“Our competitors continue to hype up the media with their
expensive implementations of DX9.0 requiring more than 130
million transistors, resulting in graphics cards costing close
to $400. And they require huge noisy fans. Furthermore, major
application software for DX9.0 will not be available for another
nine months,” said Le T. Nguyen, assistant vice president
of marketing for Trident.
“In contrast, Trident focuses on serving 90 percent of the
3D desktop graphics market with video cards for less than
$99. We provide 70 percent of today's top-of-the-line DX8.1/9.0
performance at one-fourth the cost. This is made possible
through our patented BrightPixel™ 3D graphics engine
that consumes only 30 million transistors and operates in
complete silence without any moving parts such as a fan. These
are industry firsts and are unmatched by the competition.”
The XP4's CoolPower™ technology keeps maximum power
dissipation to around three watts. The XP4 also employs the
SmartTile™ memory architecture based on 128-bit Double-Data-Rate
(DDR) memory technology that can deliver a peak data transfer
bandwidth of 8 Gbytes/sec with 90 percent efficiency while
the BrightPixel™ graphics engine achieves a peak multi-texture
rendering performance of 1.0 billion pixels/sec.
About Chaintech Computer
Co., Ltd.
Chaintech Computer Co., based in Taiwan, is rapidly building
its reputation in graphics, recently gaining favorable mention
in an Explosive Labs online review of one of its GeForce4
graphics card designs.
About Hightech Information
Systems, Ltd.
Hightech Information Systems, headquartered in Hong Kong,
is that city's largest graphics company and a top-tier worldwide
provider of multimedia graphics.
About Jaton Corp.
Jaton Corp., based in Milpitas, California, specializes in
the design and manufacture of high-performance video cards,
video accelerators, DVD players, modems, sound cards, network
interface cards and USB peripherals.
About Jetway Information
Co., Ltd.
Jetway Information Co., based in Taiwan, is a manufacturer
of a full range of motherboards, VGA video cards and modems
with experience of over 15 years. Jetway products are designed
to meet all international standards, and all procedures are
complied with ISO requirements as well.
About Trident Microsystems,
Inc.
Trident Microsystems, Inc. (Nasdaq: TRID),
based in Sunnyvale, California, designs, develops and markets
digital media for the masses in the form of graphics controllers
and multimedia integrated circuits for desktop and portable
computing applications. Trident's products are sold through
a network of OEMs, original design manufacturers (ODMs) and
system integrators worldwide. Please visit http://www.tridentmicro.com
for more information.
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