Naast twee nieuwe chipsets heeft SiS vandaag ook een nieuwe videochip onthuld aan het grote publiek. In de press release bij VR-Zone is te lezen dit de eerste SiS chip is uitgerust met hardware T&L. De chip is vooral voor de mainstream markt bedoeld, features als dual display, TV Out en de mogelijkheid om DDR geheugen te gebruiken moeten hem interessant voor OEM's maken. De productie van de SiS315 zal deze maand nog beginnen de chip gaat $30 kosten:
Up to now T&L engines only existed in 3D workstations and high-end desktop PC. The T&L engine which is located in front of rendering engine, is capable of doing complex per-vertex multiple transformation and light calculations, creating more accurate and brighter images for the viewer. Traditionally, for a PC platform without T&L engine, all these jobs have to be processed by the CPU before sending the result to the rendering engine. Therefore, the SiS315 3D chip can considerably off-load the CPU loading when running 3D Applications and allow more computing power to focus on fancy effects on the next generation 3D games or interactive applications.
- AGP4x interface
- Up to 128MB memory.
- A DDR DRAM interface is also supported
- Memory bandwidth up to 5.3GB/s.
- Built-in motion compensation engine for DVD hardware acceleration.
- 256-bit engine
- Supports dual display, LCD output and TV-out applications.