Intel Press Release

Second Technology Innovation Accelerated Award Winners Announced

INTEL DEVELOPER FORUM, San Francisco, March 8, 2006 – Matrox Graphics’ demonstration of its TripleHead2Go multi–display upgrade captured top honors at the second Technology Innovation Accelerated Awards held at the Intel Developer Forum (IDF).

Eighteen demos – three in each of the six categories – vied as finalists for the awards, which recognize technological pioneering and adoption of Intel’s platform strategy. The company’s platform strategy centers on the integration of suites of hardware, software, services and support that enable new capabilities for people in all facets of their lives – at work and at home, in productivity, information, entertainment and health care.

Matrox Graphics’ TripleHead2Go is a palm–sized box that allows a user to add three 19–inch monitors with a combined resolution of 3840x1024 pixels. The demonstration, which took top honors in the Digital Home category along with “Best of Show,” introduced three–screen support capabilities for systems with only one video output. The innovation is hailed as an immersive technology capable of providing a 45–inch virtual reality–like visual gaming experience, and is ideally suited for home and studio production.

Other categorical winners were:

  • Mobility – BSQUARE for its “Juniper Systems Archer device” demo. The device is a tool for harsh usage conditions, and described as “cleverly designed to prevent damage to the display,” surviving full emersion in water and a rough drop test.
  • Data Center – Pericom Semiconductors Corporation for a demo titled “PCI Express Extravaganza!” The demo showed the enabling of true PCI Express bandwidth over Ethernet and other low–cost cables and the miniaturization of the 4–port Ethernet switch on an x4 PCI Express card.
  • Digital Office – Realtek Semiconductor Corporation for its “High–Definition Audio Codec – ALC888 Telecom” demo. The demo showed innovative use of Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) and public switched telephone network (PSTN) in a combined solution and can be used for seamless collaboration, another pillar of digital office usage.
  • Technology and Research – WiQuest Communications for its “Integrated Ultra–Wideband chipset for Wireless USB” demo. The chipset is designed to provide breakthrough wireless performance with standard WiMedia and Wireless USB data rates from 53 Mbps to 480 Mbps.
  • Storage – One Stop Systems for its “Cost–Effective PCI Express Over Cable” demo. This solution offers users the capability to extend a previously in–chassis interface to more than seven meters.

All non–Intel exhibitors and sponsors of IDF were eligible. The 45 entries more than doubled the number from the awards’ debut at IDF last August. Judging the finalists were hundreds of journalists and analysts covering the three–day technical conference.

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