XGI goes after North American graphics card market

“XGI Technology, a graphics-solution provider, today announced the signing of a distribution agreement with ASI Corporation to promote and sell graphics cards powered by XGI GPUs in the US market. ASI will market and sell XGI?s Volari series cards, including the Volari V8 for the high-end market, V5 for the mainstream market, and the V3XT and V3 for the value market.

The Volari V8 and V5 support Microsoft DirectX9.0b, OpenGL, Shader 2.0, 3D cinematic effects, 8- and 4-pixel pipelines, realistic coloring, and smooth curves with anti-aliasing. For the value market, there are the Volari V3 and V3XT. The Volari V3XT supports DirectX9 and offers HDTV features that are usually only available with higher end products.”