Yamaha heeft een nieuwe geluidskaart aangekondigd met quadspeaker support en een S/PDIF interface, zo lees ik bij THG Technews:
Yamaha has announced its XG-Quad digital sound card, featuring 4-channel sound, with 64 XG voices in hardware. Software providing 256 XG voices is available as an option. The board provides either optical or coax S/PDIF I/O. Retail availability will be announced at a later time.The new sound card uses Yamaha's YMF744 chip and supports the Environmental Audio Extensions open standard. The signal to noise ration is greater than 90 dB. The card features 4-channel surround sound, S/PDIF output that can send Dolby Digital encoded digital audio data, 3-D sound technology by Sensaura, and full duplex hardware for telephony functions.
Production quantities will become available for OEMs later this month.
