Wave Issue 9612 11/8/96 Article 3-01

***Dynamic Pictures' Oxygen
by David Lohse

This week, Dynamic Pictures announced several new products in their high-
end Oxygen line of 3D accelerators, following the introduction in August
of the Oxygen 102. The Oxygen 202 and Oxygen 402, which deliver roughly
two times and four times (respectively) the performance of the Oxygen
102, round out the product family based on Dynamic Pictures' Oxygen chip.

Aimed at the CAD/CAM, 3D design and animation markets, the accelerators
support both the OpenGL and Heidi APIs, and are targeted at applications
such as SolidWorks, Pro/ENGINEER, and I-DEAS (Oxygen 202); 3D Studio MAX,
SoftImage and LightWave 3D (Oxygen 402).

The new Oxygen cards achieve their performance by utilizing multiple
Oxygen chips in parallel: the Oxygen 202 uses two Oxygen chips, while the
Oxygen 402 uses four. The Oxygen 202 is equipped with 16 MB SDRAM, with a
24-bit double-buffered frame buffer and a 24-bit Z-buffer for a target
resolution of 1280x1024, while the Oxygen 402 uses 32 MB SDRAM for
resolutions up to 1600x1200.

Card # of Oxygen Memory Price Availability
chips (SDRAM)

Oxygen 102 1 8 MB $1,495 Now
Oxygen 202 2 16 MB $2,795 December 1996
Oxygen 402 4 32 MB $4,995 Q1 1997

www.dypic.com or (408) 327-9000