-3DLABS Semiconductor today announced it is reinforcing its commitment to the Asia Pacific market by establishing a design and technical support centre in Hangzhou, China. The team has been recruited for their local expertise, development and design experience and will be working with and supporting local customers throughout the Asia Pacific region, tailoring the 3DLABS DMS family of products to meet local customer requirements.
The team is headed by Hasan Gadjali, VP of Sales and Business Development, responsible for Asia Pacific and United States regions. Prior to joining 3DLABS, Mr. Gadjali led emerging business development for Omnivision’s CameraChip™ in markets such as mobile phones, gaming and notebook PCs. Mr. Gadjali brings more than 20 years of electronics industry experience to the team.
Hasan Gadjali, commented, “Asia houses many of the world’s leading designers and manufacturers of mobile phones, PMPs, GPS units, video surveillance and conferencing solutions as well as gaming devices and other embedded devices. Our DMS technology enables more advanced and competitive product designs that combine versatility, speed and low-power consumption and this new team will ensure we can deliver support closer to our customers.”
“We feel it’s essential to have local expertise to effectively support our partners in Asia. Not only are there the language barriers that need bridging but customer requirement also differ.” commented Tim Lewis, 3DLABS’ director of marketing. “This new team is a strong component of our Asia Pacific commitment and is set to expand.”
About the DMS Media Rich Applications Processor
The DMS-02 is a multi-core System-On-Chip that combines two ARM® 926 cores with 3DLABS’s proprietary SIMD array processor and an industry standard set of peripheral functions. The fully programmable array performs all the media intensive tasks such as 2D/3D graphics, video encode/decode and image processing, offloading the ARM cores, leaving them free to run CPU friendly tasks. The DMS-02 hardware platform supports a wide range of peripheral modules and drivers including; analogue and digital displays, LCD touch screens, flash and DDR memory, audio in/out, ethernet, camera sensors, USB 2.0 OTG, IDE, UART and GPIOs.
The processor gives a fast time-to-market for OEMs and ODM’s designing next-generation products across a range of fast growing markets, including; high-end mobile handsets, portable digital entertainment, portable navigation, video conferencing, automotive infotainment and video surveillance..
About 3DLABS Semiconductor
3DLABS Semiconductor is a pioneering fabless semiconductor supplier of fully programmable media processors that deliver a rich mix of video, imaging, 2D/3D graphics, audio and floating-point capabilities. Based on an array of floating-point processing elements and dual ARM® cores the architecture has the performance, flexibility and low power consumption required to target a broad range of devices; portable media players, navigation systems, automotive infotainment, video conference and surveillance, mobile handsets and embedded systems. 3DLABS was originally founded in 1994 and has experience in developing fully programmable visual computing solutions with expertise in complex silicon design, parallel processing, hardware design and software development, including pioneering work on OpenGL 2.0 and OpenGL ES. 3DLABS has design centres based in England, and offices in Milpitas, California, Huntsville, Alabama and Hangzhou, China. 3DLABS Semiconductor is currently a wholly-owned subsidiary of Creative Technology Ltd.