Microsoft has also hinted at other features such as order independent transparency, which was never exposed by the Direct3D API but supported almost transparently by early Direct3D hardware such as Videologic's PowerVR line of chips.

A similar principle is employed in tiled rendering ( most famously the PowerVR 3D chip ); that is, primitives are sorted into screen space, then rendered in fast on-chip memory, one tile at a time.

PowerVR accelerators are not manufactured by PowerVR, but instead their integrated circuit designs and patents are licensed to other companies, such as Texas Instruments, Intel, NEC, Renesas, Samsung, STMicroelectronics, Freescale, Apple, NXP Semiconductors ( formerly Philips Semiconductors ), and many others.

* Imagination PowerVR SGX Series5-API support includes OpenGL ES 1. 1 / 2. 0, OpenVG 1. 1, OpenGL 2. 0 / 3. 0 and DirectX9 / 10. 1

Custom OpenGL drivers were also released by PowerVR and Rendition for running Hexen II with their respective ( and also now defunct ) products.

PowerVR produced a similar 3D-only add-on card with capable 3D support, although it was not comparable to Voodoo Graphics in either image quality or performance.

The PowerVR product line was originally introduced to compete in the desktop PC market for 3D hardware accelerators with a product with a better price / performance ratio than existing products like those from 3dfx Interactive.

Rapid changes in that market, notably with the introduction of OpenGL and Direct3D, led to rapid consolidation ; Most of the smaller players, like PowerVR, were pushed from the marketplace.

PowerVR responded by introducing new versions with low-power electronics that were aimed at the laptop computer market.

The PowerVR hardware typically calculates the depths associated with each polygon for one tile row in 1 cycle.

PowerVR achieved great success in the mobile graphics market with its low power PowerVR MBX.

It is included in the PlayStation Vita portable gaming device with the MP4 + Model of the PowerVR SGX543, the only intended difference, aside from the + indicating features customized for Sony, is the cores, where MP4 denotes 4 cores ( quad-core ) whereas the MP8 denotes 8 cores ( octo-core ).

The Voodoo's primary competition were products from PowerVR and Rendition.

However on July 22, 1997, Sega announced that it was terminating the development contract, and that Sega chose to use NEC's PowerVR chipset for its game console.

* Imagination PowerVR VGX150 OpenVG 1. 1

The RGSS method of anti-aliasing combines multiple samples of each frame, resulting in higher quality than the brute force ordered-grid over-sampling of ImgTech PowerVR, ATI Radeon DDR and NVIDIA GeForce 2.

The only other cards capable of rendering GLQuake were a professional ( and very expensive ) Intergraph 3D OpenGL card and later, the PowerVR cards.

The term MiniGL was applied to a wide range of incomplete OpenGL implementations provided by graphics card hardware companies including 3dfx, PowerVR and Rendition in the late 1990s.

PowerVR is a division of Imagination Technologies ( formerly VideoLogic ) that develops hardware and software for 2D and 3D rendering, and for video encoding, decoding, associated image processing and DirectX, OpenGL ES, OpenVG, and OpenCL acceleration.

In this form, PowerVR is a leading vendor in the mobile space, found in many embedded systems, palmtops, and smartphones.

As the polygon generating program feeds triangles to the PowerVR ( driver ), it stores them in memory in a triangle strip or an indexed format.

** Speed: 1. 79 MHz, drops to 1. 19 MHz when the TIA Television Interface Adaptor or RIOT ( 6532 RAM-I / O-Timer ) chips are accessed

The 2600 chips are used in 7800 mode to generate sound as well as switch and controller interfaces.

The player may add up to half the value of their original bet to the insurance and these extra chips are placed on a portion of the table usually marked " Insurance Pays 2 to 1 ".

Backgammon playing pieces are known variously as checkers, draughts, stones, men, counters, pawns, discs, or chips.

) The wagers are made in cash, never in chips, and are usually thrown down onto the ground by the players.

Many players, in order to eliminate the confusion of tossing four chips to the center of the table or having change made while bets are being placed, will make a five-unit Horn High bet, which is a four-way bet with the extra unit going to one specific number.

* VRAM: 16 KB ( Chips marked ITT ( See ITT Corporation ) 8244 4116 3N in the circuit board picture-These are 16K by 1 bit chips, thus there are 8 of them )

Many types of counter circuits are available as digital building blocks, for example a number of chips in the 4000 series implement different counters.

However, financial institutions are in the process of rolling out smart cards with integrated circuits (" chips ") that will enable verification by entering a personal identification number ( PIN ) at the EFTPOS terminal.

French fries ( American English, with " French " often capitalized ), or chips, fries, or French-fried potatoes are batons of deep-fried potato.

North Americans refer to any elongated pieces of fried potatoes as fries, while in the United Kingdom, Australia, Ireland and New Zealand, long, thinly cut slices of fried potatoes are sometimes called fries to distinguish them from the more thickly cut strips called chips ( while potato chips are called crisps ).

The word " aiguillettes " or " allumettes " is used when the chips are very small and thin.

Traditionally, " chips " in the British Isles ( and Australia and New Zealand ), are cut much thicker, i. e., are " chipped " from the potatoes and described in some recipes as " chipped potatoes " not simply " chips ", and are typically between 10 and 15 mm ( 3 / 8 – 1 / 2 inches ) wide.

Thick-cut, or beefsteak, British chips are occasionally made from unpeeled potatoes to enhance their flavor and nutritional value and are not necessarily served as crisp as the European French fry due to their relatively high water content.

TI is the third largest manufacturer of semiconductors worldwide after Intel and Samsung, the second largest supplier of chips for cellular handsets after Qualcomm, and the largest producer of digital signal processors ( DSPs ) and analog semiconductors, among a wide range of other semiconductor products, including calculators, microcontrollers and multi-core processors.

, however, multi-core chips are becoming more common in new computers, and the balance between installed uni-and multi-core computers may change in the coming years.

Most computers have just one CPU, but some models have several, and multi-core processor chips are becoming the norm.

* Some multi-core chips can be programmed so that one of their processors is the primary processor, and the other processors are supporting coprocessors.

Some arcade systems used multi-core versions of POKEY that placed 2 or 4 POKEY chips in a single package allowing more sound voices.

The game also used multi-core processing, which included two Z80 microprocessors, one 6809 microprocessor, and one 8039 microprocessor, and for the sound, five AY-3-8910 PSG sound chips and a DAC.

It was also notable for its multi-core processing, which included two Z80 microprocessors, one 6809 microprocessor, and one 8039 microprocessor, and for the sound, five AY-3-8910 PSG sound chips and a DAC.