TriTech Microelectronics Inc, the Singapore-owned company that recently licensed its 3D graphics chip technology to Microsoft Corp (CI No 3,376), is to get out of the market altogether. Microsoft went to TriTech and licensed its Pyramid3D bump mapping technology for use in DirectX 6.0. But now the Milpitas, California company, which only got into the 3D graphics market last year with the Pyramid3D family of VLIW very long instruction word graphics chips, has decided instead to concentrate on analog audio, and mixed-signal ASICs, its core business. It’s currently unclear what will happen to the Pyramid3D chip, for which no licensees have been publicly announced. TriTech is owned by Singapore Technologies Semiconductors Ltd.
