随着Intel介入图形芯片市场,S3将另辟蹊径,推出面向笔记本电脑市场的低功耗3D图形加速芯片。 S3于10月底提交了该芯片的样品,并计划于1998年上半年正式推出这种用于笔记本电脑的图形加速器Virge/MX。它内部集成了2MB DRAM,支持2D和3D图形加速功能,是业界第一枚将2D、3D图形加速功能和DRAM集于一身的图形加速芯片。它有效地节省了笔记本电脑的空间,给设计者更多的添加其它部件的余地。据S3的产品市场部经理Andy Kelm介绍,尽管S3的产品重点仍在台式机的图形加速器上,但公司已经成立了一个移动产品 With Intel’s involvement in the graphics chip market, S3 will find another way to introduce a low-power 3D graphics accelerator chip for the notebook market. S3 submitted a sample of the chip at the end of October and plans to officially launch Virge / MX, a graphics accelerator for laptops, in the first half of 1998. It integrates 2MB DRAM internally, supports 2D and 3D graphics acceleration, and is the industry’s first graphics acceleration chip that combines 2D and 3D graphics acceleration with DRAM. It effectively saves the laptop space, giving designers more room to add other components. According to Andy Kelm, product marketing manager at S3, although S3’s product focus is still on the desktop graphics accelerator, the company has set up a mobile product