Psssst....Microsoft shows new Matrox Hardware...

[Joe DeFuria]

http://216.12.218.25/domain/www.beyond3d.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=535

If only I read Japanese....Something about 40 bit color and of course, diplacement maps. Haven't watched the videos yet...

EDIT...From what I can tell, what has taken place is the MS is demoing some DX9 features (including displacement mapping.) And based on the logo on some of those video screens, they may be using Matrox hardware to do it.

[Jmkbiker]

Can anyone please translate

[Sasq]

Been done translated....
Ummm long and short, the demo he saw - even behind closed doors was run in software emulation.

He asked Boyd why was matrox involved with the presentation and the respose was "Oh, they have just been doing some research in it, thats all" (nothing to see, move on, move on)

The reporter has a firm belief that the next core from Matrox will be more then the 'Frame buffer' the the G400/G550 cores are and he expects good things soon™ from matrox.

Dan

[Jon P. Inghram]

What I thought was rather funny what that the software was running on Win98 apparently. Even MS doesn't trust XP I guess...

[Sasq]

Lets keep this topic here

http://forums.murc.ws/showthread.php?s=&threadid=32003

Dan

[Kruzin]

I agree, Sasq.
There is already a thread about this in the Crystal Ball forum (the place where speculations belong).
This thread will be closed. Please continue in the thread Sasq linked to...