S3 Chrome

S3 Graphics' Chrome series of graphics accelerators arrived in 2004 with the DeltaChrome line of chips. They are designed to be used as discrete, mobile, and integrated graphics solutions.

Overview

In 2004, VIA attempted to re-launch the S3 Graphics name with updated discrete hardware, but performance was still far below that of NVIDIA and ATI Technologies. However, the low power requirements and high-definition output of the Chrome range make it attractive for small form factor scenarios.

The Chrome series, excluding perhaps the unreleased Savage XP/AlphaChrome and the early UniChrome, supports Direct3D 9 with full pixel shader 2.0 support.

S3's AcceleRAM technology is similar to ATI's HyperMemory and NVIDIA's TurboCache, where system RAM is used to supplement the video card's RAM. Furthermore, the MultiChrome technology is equivalent to ATI CrossFire and NVIDIA's SLI.

AlphaChrome

It is the first of the 'Chrome' product line, previously titled Savage XP and codenamed Zoetrope.

DeltaChrome

Chrome

Chrome may refer to:

Materials

Computing

Music

Musicians

Albums and songs

Chromeč

Chromeč is a village and municipality (obec) in Šumperk District in the Olomouc Region of the Czech Republic. The municipality covers an area of 5.48 square kilometres (2.12 sq mi), and has a population of 580 (as at 3 July 2006). First note about the village comes from 1353 when the recent area was kept by multiple owners. Since 17th Century Chromeč was considered to be part of the Bludov Manor. The municipality became autonomous in 1990. The POW camp for British pilots was established in the Sokolovna during World War II.

Notable persons

Josef Drásal – the tallest Czech ever, suffering of gigantism. Drásal was famous member of circus in his time with notable performance for French emperor Napoleon III.

References

Coordinates: 49°56′N 16°54′E / 49.933°N 16.900°E / 49.933; 16.900

Oxygene (programming language)

Oxygene (formerly known as Chrome) is a programming language developed by RemObjects Software for Microsoft's Common Language Infrastructure, the Java Platform and Cocoa. Oxygene is Object Pascal-based, but also has influences from C#, Eiffel, Java, F# and other languages.

Compared to the now deprecated Delphi.NET, Oxygene does not emphasize total backward compatibility, but is designed to be a "reinvention" of the language, be a good citizen on the managed development platforms, and leverage all the features and technologies provided by the .NET and Java runtimes.

Oxygene is commercial product, and offers full integration into Microsoft's Visual Studio IDE, as well as its own IDE, Fire. The command line compiler is available free. Oxygene is one of three languages supported by the underlying Elements Compiler toolchain, next to C# and Swift.

From 2008 to 2012, RemObjects Software has licensed its compiler and IDE technology to Embarcadero to be used in their Embarcadero Prism product. Starting in the Fall of 2011, Oxygene is available in two separate editions, with the second edition adding support for the Java and Android runtimes. Starting with the release of XE4, Embarcadero Prism is no longer part of the RAD Studio SKU. Numerous support and upgrade paths for Prism customers exist to migrate to Oxygene.