(Press Release) NVIDIA Corporation has announced its new GeForce Titanium series of Graphics Processing Units (GPUs). The GeForce3 Ti and GeForce2 Ti series of GPUs deliver breakthrough graphics technologies, each providing unprecedented levels of performance and visual quality. These new products also utilise NVIDIA’s high-performance Detonator XP driver, incorporating special software optimisations that immediately take full advantage of the newest features of the Microsoft Windows XP operating system.

The new GeForce Titanium series consists of three new products:

GeForce3 Ti 500: The GeForce3 Ti 500 is the world’s fastest, feature rich GPU and the flagship product of NVIDIA’s desktop graphics family. The GeForce3 Ti 500 offers unparalleled anti-aliasing performance, 3.8 billion anti-aliased samples per second, and introduces groundbreaking new 3D graphics features to the desktop PC.

GeForce3 Ti 200: The GeForce2 Ti is the first DirectX 8 GPU targeted at the performance mainstream market. By delivering 2.8 billion anti-aliased samples per second, the GeForce3 Ti 200 brings high-performance 3D graphics and state-of-the-art image quality to the performance-minded consumer.

GeForce2 Ti: GeForce2 Ti redefines graphics performance for mainstream computers by delivering 1 billion pixels/sec. rendering power and delivering a groundbreaking 6.4GB/sec. of bandwidth for the mainstream consumer.
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(ZDNET) The semiconductor industry is in the midst of a massive technological change, converting to mass-producing chips with copper, rather than aluminum, wires. The weird part: Almost no one seems to be having major problems. Copper, which conducts electricity better than aluminum, gives designers an avenue to break through looming physical barriers that could prevent further boosts in chip performance. The first copper Pentium 4's will come out in the fourth quarter of this year at 2.2GHz, for instance, and hit 3.5GHz next year. Working with copper poses several challenges, however. "Sputtering," a process for applying metal to silicon, doesn't work with copper, for example. Neither do traditional techniques for etching circuits. And errant, minute traces of copper rubbed on a wafer can destroy a batch of chips. Analysts predicted that production hiccups could result in annoyances for medium-sized producers or in financial disasters for larger ones.
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(Product Announcement) Hercules has released a new family of 3D Prophet boards, based on the GeForce2 and GeForce3 Titanium 3D processors from NVIDIA. The new 3D Prophet Titanium line-up, consisting of 3D Prophet III Titanium 500, 3D Prophet III Titanium 200 and 3D Prophet II Titanium, offers powerful and highly featured 3D solutions to enhance the new 3D effects used by games developers. The 3 boards operate with a GPU (Graphics Processing Unit) enabling turbo-boosted 3D performance in games requiring large texture buffers. 3D Prophet Titanium accelerators benefit from Hercules' expert material adjustments, including RAM heatsinks and cooling fans, for a significant leap ahead of existing solutions. Each board also incorporates multi-media features for display through a high quality TV/Video Output on NTSC and PAL TV, and comes with PowerDVD 3.0 software for experiencing DVD movies.

3D Prophet III Titanium 500: The characteristics of the 3D Prophet III Titanium 500 place it in the ultra-fast race category. 3D Prophet III Titanium 500 is designed around the industry's most powerful graphics processor, GeForce3 Titanium 500, with the enhanced nFinite-FX(tm) engine and DirectX 8 Programmable Vertex and Pixel Shaders. The 3D Prophet III Titanium 500 board is clocked at 240MHz core and ultra-fast 250MHz DDR RAM. In addition to the high-resolution TV-Output, the board supports a DVI-Output to play DVD-Videos and games on digital flat panels. The 3D Prophet III Titanium 500 will be available mid-October 2001 for 379$ (USD).

3D Prophet III Titanium 200: 3D Prophet III Titanium 200 is engineered around the new GeForce3 Titanium 200, processing DirectX8 and new 3D games enhancements in hardware. Running at a core clock of 175MHz mated to 64MB of ultra-fast onboard DDR RAM, 250MHz qualified, it guarantees super fast gameplay in the highest resolutions. Like its sister, 3D Prophet III Titanium 200 benefits from all the technical innovations of the NVIDIA nFinite-FX(tm) engine and Lightspeed Memory Architecture(tm), and brings high-resolution anti-aliasing to your desktop for a superior image quality. The 3D Prophet III Titanium 200 will be available mid-October 2001 for 259$ (USD).

3D Prophet II Titanium: 3D Prophet II Titanium is the reference 3D accelerator for all gaming enthusiasts. It is powered by the acclaimed GeForce2 NVIDIA Shading Rasterizer processor with a second-generation Transform and Lighting engine. Thanks to its 250Mhz core clock, combined with ultra fast DDR RAM, 250MHz qualified, it offers maximum acceleration and high visual quality in multi-textured 3D games, without compromising on performance at a reasonable price. The 3D Prophet II Titanium will be available mid-October 2001 for 159$ (USD).
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