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The following reports are available from the Inquest Archives. Please send email to info@inqst.com for more information.
Across the entire PC platform, nearly every key technology is in a state of accelerating transition. New bus interfaces, integration opportunities, price/performance requirements, new market segments, technology initiatives, new features and capabilities, new competitors and new market windows will emerge and advance at a blindingly fast pace...
Microsoft's Talisman is a powerful and somewhat controversial initiative which significantly extends 3D graphics and multimedia performance on the PC platform. Talisman combines a new and efficient object oriented programming model with an innovative hardware acceleration architecture. This combination drives toward new extremes in 3D image quality and performance which would be prohibitively costly using traditional architectures...
MMX as a Direct 3D Accelerator This report is a multifaceted performance, technology and market evaluation of MMX 3D graphics rendering vs. hardware acceleration. Intel’s MMX technology is the embodiment of a strategy to migrate entertainment and media processing tasks to the host CPU. This strategy will unavoidably impact the balance of power in graphics, multimedia, silicon and software. InQuest’s goal is to the hard technical and marketing information needed to correctly interpret these new dynamics...
Multimedia Integration Under Windows A Technology Reference for Strategic Planners. What you need to know about PC multimedia hardware and software during the era of host-based signal processing on the X86. Multimedia Integration under Windows is a 350 page technical marketing analysis of PC multimedia hardware and software implementation strategies. Inspired by Intel's Native Signal Processing initiative (NSP), it is intended to serve as an up to date, analytical technology resource for strategic planners and architects of PC systems and semiconductors...
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