Samsung KS82C614A "Double Dragon"

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Stiletto

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From the mid 90's, when everyone was developing their own 3D accelerator chipsets:
Samsung Electronics Co. (San Jose, CA) includes 3-D with Gouraud shading and texture mapping in its KS82C614A graphics controller. It has a 64-bit PCI bus interface. Samsung expects to find a market in PCs as well as set-top boxes, because of 3-D requirements in the latest games from Nintendo and Sega. The chip's 3-D capability is said to be usable for 3-D CAD as well. It supports frame buffers from 2 to 8 Mbytes using DRAM, video RAM, and Window RAM. Drivers are provided for Windows 3.1, Windows 95, and Windows NT, as well as OS/2 Warp, Autodesk ADI, and Microsoft Direct 3-D, Direct Draw, and Direct Video APIs. The KS82C614A is $440 each in lots of 100,000 and is available now.
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Source: http://www.electronicproducts.com/Digital_ICs/Graphics_controller_ICs_in_transition.aspx

Product name is: "Double Dragon"
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I don't remember ever hearing about this one, and it looks like we never did again after their press release.
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BRender claims to support it in their October 1996 website:
http://web.archive.org/web/199610290621 ... #TopofPage

I'd be interested in any additional information.
 
The old S5PC100 SoC (Cortex-A8, similar to what was in the iPhone 3GS except the GPU part) had what appeared to be an in-house developed Samsung GPU too. OpenGL 2.0 compatible, which was pretty competitive feature-wise for a mobile GPU back then. I don't think the performance or drivers were very good, though.
 
Davros said:
you could try sending a pm to [EOCF] Tim (timbre on vogons) or vlask they might have some info
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Hah, I've actually been _sending_ vlask info lately (you'll notice a lot of his videocard entries at http://vgamuseum.info/ now have some informative PDFs attached)

The last time I sent Timber a message (a year or two ago) I did not receive a response. I can always try again...
 
Davros said:
Wow you don't give up do you ;)
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I would try to circle back to every hanging question I'd ever come up with if given enough time. And when it's "research" stuff like this, I even try to keep a few notes as a "to-do" for later. My hard drives are strewn with hundreds of these little (and not so little) textfiles :)

Important to note: those URLS in the 2021 search results did NOT exist when I started looking in 2013. So when you're doing searches like this, try to keep notes on the important-looking URLs in your search results, you may be able to expand on them later!
 
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