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S3 Graphics said Monday it had inked an agreement with Sony Computer Entertainment and Sony Computer Entertainment America for its licensing of S3 Graphics’ S3TC texture compression technology for the upcoming PlayStation Portable console.

S3TC enables high level of compression while maintaining texture detail and quality. This balance of quality and compression becomes even more important for portable applications when efficient use of memory directly impacts the size and quality of software applications and games.

“S3TC technology allows PlayStation Portable software developers to take advantage of very high quality texture compression technology and benefit from a range of proven tools and libraries,” said Masayuki Chatani, Corporate Executive and CTO, Sony Computer Entertainment.

This license agreement reinforces S3 Graphics’ S3TC texture compression technology as the industry standard for both PC and game console graphics, the Freemont, California-based graphics firm said.

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Discussion started: 08/31/04 01:41:57 AM
Latest comment: 08/31/04 08:06:24 AM

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o crap, this is your queue to stay as far away from the psp as possible.

i've had horrible experiences from s3's products... god, why can't that company make a decent product.
[Posted by: skeptical  | Date: 08/31/04 01:41:57 AM]

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Is S3TC better then DXTC1...DXTC5 or this is all the same?
[Posted by: I  | Date: 08/31/04 01:44:18 AM]

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I wonder if it'll support the packman texture compression scheme shown at Siggraph 2004?
http://www.cs.lth.se/~tam/pubs/packman_sketch.pdf
[Posted by: remy  | Date: 08/31/04 08:04:22 AM]

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s3tc is dxtc. Just S3 has licensed it to MS for free so software developers and other IHVs don't have to pay to use it. However if you want to support s3tc in another API (i.e. OpenGL) then the IHV has to pay S3 money. I assume this is why the 3Dlabs cards don't support this in OpenGL.
[Posted by: remy  | Date: 08/31/04 08:06:24 AM]

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