3Dlabs obtains a license for S3 Texture Compression (S3TC)
S3 Graphics and Creative Technology, the owner of 3Dlabs brand, signed a license agreement. According to it, S3TC (S3 Texture Compression) will be used in the next generation of 3Dlabs´ workstation graphics.
S3TC has been around for a long time. Already in 2000, when a good graphics card had 16-32 MB memory, a problem of local memory deficit for 32-bit mode had arisen. About that time various texture compression technologies began to appear.
Of course, licensing is far from actual implementation. In the respective S3 Graphics´ press release there´s nothing about implementation dates, it only mentions 4x texture compression factor.
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