3dfx Drives High-Volume Motherboard Wins With Voodoo3

2000 / Four Major Taiwanese Motherboard Makers Announce Plans toBuild Voodoo3 2000 Into Upcoming Products SAN JOSE, Calif. (PROTEXT) - To mark the opening of Taiwan'sComputex Taipei expo, 3dfx Interactive(R) Inc. (Nasdaq: TDFX)today announced that it continues to drive high-volumemotherboard wins for its Voodoo3(TM) 2000 graphics accelerator.3dfx announced that its Voodoo3 2000 will be integrated onto newmotherboard products from ASUSTeK, A-Trend , Gigabyte and MSI. "With broad acceptance among motherboard manufacturers inAsia, 3dfx is delivering on its promise from COMDEX '98 toestablish Voodoo3 2000 as a high-volume graphics product idealfor motherboard-level integration," said Michael Howse, seniorvice president of worldwide marketing at 3dfx Interactive."Following our earlier motherboard design wins in the U.S. andEurope, these four announcements further solidify the Voodoo3line as a volume leader both in retail and OEM channels, andstrengthen 3dfx's role as a recognized leading graphicssupplier." Available to OEMs this summer, the new motherboards willfeature the 143MHz Voodoo3 2000 chipset with 16MB of memory and a300MHz RAMDAC. Voodoo3 2000 will be highlighted in the P3B-Vmodel from ASUSTeK; the ATC6253M, ATC6254M, and ATC6264Mmotherboard products from A-Trend; the 6BXM product fromGigabyte; and the MS6168 from MSI. Vodooo3 2000 generates up to 6 million triangles and 286Megatexels per second at resolutions of up to 2,048 by 1,536pixels. Voodoo3 2000 also includes such advanced features as:single-pass single-cycle multi-texturing for bump mapping andtrilinear mip-mapping, dual 32-bit internal rendering, per-pixelmip-mapping, sub-pixel and sub-texel correction, 8-bit palletizedtextures, programmable exponential fog tables, Gouraud shading, afull 128-bit 2D accelerator, DVD hardware assist, and support forDirectX, Glide(R) and OpenGL. Today's news follows 3dfx Interactive's successful corporatelaunches last week in Japan and Korea. 3dfx announced severalrelationships with leading Asian distributors, and unveiled locallanguage versions of its acclaimed Voodoo3 product line. 3dfxgraphics technology is becoming a significant force in PC andentertainment technology due in large part to the company'sstrategic OEM relationships with a growing list of leading PCmanufacturers. Through its PC OEM and retail partners, 3dfxInteractive has shipped more than 10 million products worldwide. 3dfx Interactive develops high-performance, cost-effective 3Dmedia processors, software and related technology that aredesigned to enable a highly immersive, interactive and realistic3D experience across interactive electronic entertainmentplatforms -- personal computers, coin-operated arcade systems andlocation-based entertainment. Current 3dfx Interactive productsinclude the Voodoo family of accelerator chip sets, Voodoo2(TM),Voodoo Graphics(R), Voodoo Banshee(TM) and the new Voodoo3(TM).Visit the company on the Web at http://www.3dfx.com 3dfx Interactive, Glide and Voodoo Graphics are registeredtrademarks and Voodoo, Voodoo2, Voodoo3 and Voodoo Banshee aretrademarks of 3dfx Interactive. All other names may be trademarksof their respective holders. ots Original Text Service: 3dfxInteractive Inc. Internet: http://www.newsaktuell.de Contact:Theresa Campbell of Catapult Partners, 650-524-1720, ortheresa@catapultinc.com, for 3dfx Interactive Inc. Company NewsOn-Call: http://www.prnewswire.com/comp/123070.html or fax, 800-758-5804, ext. 123070 Web site: http://www.3dfx.com

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