3Dlabs
3DLABS was a fabless semiconductor company that originally developed the GLINT and PERMEDIA high-end graphics chip technology, that was used on many of the world's leading computer graphics cards in the CAD and DCC markets, including its own Wildcat and Oxygen cards.
In 2006, the company focused development efforts on its emerging media processing business and in 2009 rebranded as ZiiLABS.
History
3DLABS was formed from a management buy-out of Dupont Pixel Systems in the UK in April, 1994 and went public on Nasdaq in October, 1996. 3DLABS acquired Dynamic Pictures in July, 1998 and the Intense3D division of Intergraph in July, 2000 before being acquired by Creative Labs in June, 2002. In February, 2006, 3Dlabs announced that it would stop developing professional 3D graphic chips and focus on embedded and mobile media processors.
3DLABS was an early pioneer in bringing 3D graphics to the PC. Its GLINT 300SX graphics processor was the industry's first single chip, 3D-capable graphics device that was shipped on graphics boards from multiple vendors. Gamma was the first single chip graphics geometry processor for the PC. Permedia was the first low-cost OpenGL accelerator chip. 3Dlabs was a member of the OpenGL Architecture Review Board and played an important role in the development of OpenGL 2.0 and ongoing evolution of the OpenGL API.
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So Strong
by: Dale Bozzio(Written by Prince)
Hello darling did I awaken u?
I know that it's late
But there's something I've got to tell u
We only been together a very short time
But it seems that you're the only thing on my mind
2 everything else I have become blind
I don't know how u feel about me
But you're the only one I wanna see
So strong, so strong, this feeling I got 4 u is so strong
Only 4 a very short time I've known u
And already I feel like I was born 2 hold u
I don't know how you feel about me
But baby u are all that I wanna be-so strong
And you're so beautiful
With u I feel I have everything
U make me wanna laugh and cry
U make me wanna sing
If I could make u happy as u make me
Then my darling life would be complete
I owe u 4 the feeling when our eyes meet
I don't know how u feel about me
But you're the only one I wanna see
So strong, so strong this feeling I got 4 u is so strong
Only 4 a very short time I've known u
And already I feel like I was born 2 hold u
I don't know how u feel about me
But baby baby you're all I wanna be--so strong
(this feeling I got 4 you, so strong)
If I could make u happy as u make me
Then my darling life would be complete
I don't know how u feel about me
But baby baby you're all I wanna be
So strong so strong this feeling I got 4 u is so strong
Only for a very short time I've known you (so strong)
And already I feel like I was born 2 hold u (so strong)
I don't know how u feel about me
But baby you're all that I wanna be (so strong)