3DLABS Inc. Ltd. was a fabless semiconductor company. It was founded by Yavuz Ahıska and Osman Kent in 1994 with headquarters in San Jose, California.

In November 2006 3Dlabs introduced the DMS-02, its first media processor capable of 720P HD Video for portable devices. In January 2009 the SoC team merged with a Creative product division and rebranded as ZiiLABS. It claimed the new company was to offer processors and complete market-ready hardware and software platforms to consumer OEMs and ODMs.

Media processors

The ZMS processors are based on a low-power multicore architecture including dual ARM cores for handling traditional CPU tasks plus a closely coupled, fully programmable SIMD array processor to do the heavy lifting for intensive media processing tasks such as; 2D graphics, 3D graphics, video decode/encode, image processing and floating point (32-bit IEEE). The processors integrate on-chip peripherals and interfaces suitable for a broad range of handheld and embedded devices.

Originally developed under the 3Dlabs name, the processor-related products are now sold and supported by ZiiLABS.

Graphics card listing

thumb|Dual Head [[Appian Graphics Jeronimo Pro (2× Permedia 2 – 2× 8 MB ]]

thumb|Oxygen 402 PCI with [[Cirrus Logic CL-GD5429]]

thumb|FireGL 1000 PCI

thumb|3Dlabs Oxygen ACX PCI

These are cards which were supplied by 3DLABS. Drivers and limited support for these products can be found at: https://web.archive.org/web/20080227235127/http://www.3dlabs.com/content/legacy/

Chips:

  • 3Dlabs GLINT GMX - GMX 1000 (Gamma + MX), GMX 2000 (Gamma + 2xMX)
  • 3Dlabs GLINT Gamma (geometry processor)
  • 3Dlabs GLINT DMX - DMX 1000 (Delta + MX), DMX 2000 (Delta + 2xMX)
  • 3Dlabs GLINT Delta (triangle setup processor)
  • 3Dlabs GLINT MX
  • 3Dlabs GLINT 500TX
  • 3Dlabs GLINT 300SX
  • 3Dlabs Permedia
  • 3Dlabs Permedia NT (Permedia + GLINT Delta)
  • 3Dlabs Permedia 2

Boards:

  • Wildcat Realizm series - consists of Vertex/Scalability Units (VSU), Visual Processing Units (VPU)
  • (2005) 3Dlabs Wildcat Realizm 800 - 1 VSU, 2 VPU, 512 + 128 MB GDDR3, 512-bit memory interface, x16 PCIe
  • (2005) 3Dlabs Wildcat Realizm 500 - 1 VPU, 256 MB GDDR3, 256-bit memory interface, x16 PCIe,
  • (2004) 3Dlabs Wildcat Realizm 200 - 1 VPU, 512 MB GDDR3, 256-bit memory interface, AGP x8
  • (2004) 3Dlabs Wildcat Realizm 100 - 1 VPU, 256 MB GDDR3, 256-bit memory interface, AGP x8
  • Wildcat VP (Visual Processing) Series - based on P10 and P9 chips:
  • (2003) 3Dlabs Wildcat VP990 Pro - P10, 512 MB RAM, AGP x8
  • (2003) 3Dlabs Wildcat VP880 Pro - P10, 256 MB RAM, AGP x8
  • (2002) 3Dlabs Wildcat VP970 - P10, 128 MB RAM, AGP x8
  • (2002) 3Dlabs Wildcat VP870 - P10, 128 MB RAM, AGP x8
  • (2002) 3Dlabs Wildcat VP760 - P10, 64 MB RAM, AGP x8
  • (2003) 3Dlabs Wildcat VP560 - P9, 64 MB RAM, AGP x8
  • Wildcat4 Series:
  • (2003) 3Dlabs Wildcat4 7210 - 256 MB texture memory and 128 MB frame buffer, AGP Pro 50 x8
  • (2003) 3Dlabs Wildcat4 7110 - 128 MB texture memory and 128 MB frame buffer, AGP Pro 50 x8
  • Wildcat III Series:
  • (2002) 3Dlabs Wildcat III 6210 - 256 MB texture memory and 128 MB frame buffer, AGP Pro 50
  • (2002) 3Dlabs Wildcat III 6110 - 128 MB texture memory and 64 MB frame buffer, AGP Pro 50
  • Wildcat II Series:
  • (2001) 3Dlabs Wildcat II 5110 - 64 MB texture memory and 64 MB frame buffer, AGP Pro 50 x4
  • (2001) 3Dlabs Wildcat II 5000 - 32 MB texture memory and 32 MB frame buffer
  • 3Dlabs Oxygen GVX420 - 2xGLINT R4 + GLINT Gamma G2 + 128 MB SGRAM
  • 3Dlabs Oxygen GVX1 Pro - GLINT R4 + GLINT Gamma G2 + 64 MB SDRAM + DVI-I
  • (2000) 3Dlabs Oxygen GVX210 - 2xGLINT R3 + GLINT Gamma G2 + 64 MB SGRAM
  • 3Dlabs Oxygen GVX1 - GLINT R3 + GLINT Gamma G1 + 32 MB SDRAM, PCI and AGP version available
  • 3Dlabs Oxygen VX1 - GLINT R3 + 32 MB SDRAM
  • 3Dlabs Oxygen VX1-16 - GLINT R3 + 16 MB SDRAM
  • 3Dlabs Oxygen VX1 Stereo - GLINT R3 + 32 MB SDRAM + CrystalEyes
  • 3Dlabs Oxygen VX1 1600SW - GLINT R3 + 32 MB SDRAM + LVDS connector (for use with the SGI 1600SW flat panel)
  • 3Dlabs Permedia3 Create! - Permedia3
  • 3Dlabs Oxygen GMX - a GMX 2000 based card
  • 3Dlabs Oxygen RPM - dual RPM based card
  • 3Dlabs Oxygen ACX - a Permedia 2 based card

thumb|Intense 3D Pro 2200

Acquired with Intense3D:

  • Intense3D Wildcat 4210
  • Intense3D Wildcat 4110
  • Intense3D Wildcat 4105
  • Intense3D Wildcat 4000
  • Intense3D Wildcat 3510
  • Intense 3D Pro 3600
  • Intense 3D Pro 3400
  • Intense 3D Pro 2200S
  • Intense 3D Pro 2200
  • Intense 3D Pro 1000

Acquired with Dynamic Pictures Inc.:

  • Dynamic Pictures Oxygen 102, 202, 402
  • Dynamic Pictures V192

Before ATI acquired the FireGL team in 2001, Diamond Multimedia used 3Dlabs chipsets for some of its FireGL cards. Newer Technology sold the RenderPix cards based on the 500TX + Glint Delta for the Macintosh. Formac also made a number of Macintosh graphics cards using Permedia 1, 2, and 3 chipsets.

See also

  • Multimedia
  • Graphics card
  • Graphics processing unit

References

  • 3Dlabs homepage support legacy graphics cards