STMicroelectronics will withdraw from the PC graphics chip market, and is currently looking for a buyer for that part of its business, which produced and sold the Kyro and Kyro II graphics chips. Kyro ...

Little more than a week after Hercules announced it would go after the high-end graphics market with a GeForce3 card, the graphics board maker has unveiled a new partnership with ST Microelectronics ...

I think that this anandtech review provides some good benchmarks for comparison between these two cards. Even when fully enabled and OC'd, the LE is still not as fast as the Kyro II in most situations ...

If you haven't read the latest article over at Ace's, it provides further info on the GeForce3 and Kyro II. The results were mixed in terms of what I wanted to see.<P>Basically, the GeForce3 should ...

The Kyro II based graphics card uses a different type of rendering technology. Which uses Tile based rendering, this type of rendering has been around for a while. It first surfaced with the Power VR ...

Imagination Technologies division PowerVR Technologies has launched its latest graphics accelerator at CeBIT 2002. KYRO II SE is the third processor in the KYRO family of 2D/3D graphics cards, with a ...

Something dawned on me when I sat down to begin writing this review. The STMicroelectronics Kyro II powered Hercules 3D Prophet 4500, is the first video card that I have reviewed since July 2000, that ...

Do you remember the Kyro? We previewed it in the middle of last year, and guessed (wrongly, it would seem) that the card had a bright future ahead of it in budget gaming systems, on the back of its ...

This article is part of the Electronics History series: The Graphics Chip Chronicles. The year 1998 represented the high point in the PC graphics chip industry. The dot-com bubble was swelling to ...