3DLabs is to launch a new graphics accelerator chip, code-named the P10, and board-level products should be shipping in Q3.
The target markets are the workstations and games sectors - and pre-production units, and beta DirectX 9 and OpenGL 2.0 drivers already seeded with apps developers. Digital photographers and video editors are another target sector.
Taking a leaf from Nvidia's book, California-based 3DLabs is giving its chip a fancy category name - a Visual Processor Unit (VPU) - to make it sound like a CPU. And the press release has the requisite quote from Jon Peddie (no graphics chip press release would be complete with a comment from this analyst).
|