Siliconarts, a next-generation 3D graphics technologies company, is pleased to announce its world's fastest ray tracing semiconductor IP core RayCore®, that delivers an interactive, cinema-quality 3D images using long-awaited real-time ray tracing hardware technology.

 

Ray tracing hardware technology has long been regarded as an ultimate 3D graphics technology that will substitute reigning Rasterization hardware technology. However, due to the complexity of calculating a huge set of 3D data to implement true images, few research institutes have barely succeeded and introduced any type of prototypes that can be directly developed and applied to commercial level until today.

 

Siliconarts, after more than 4 years of research and development solely dedicated on RayCore® IP core, possesses its unparalleled processing technology that is highly scalable due to its proprietary MIMD (Multiple Instruction stream, Multiple Data stream) architecture. RayCore® enables 3D contents to process in between 14 million to 24 million rays per second per core, the industry's fastest performance, and supports display resolutions of 960x640, 960x480, 800x480, and 300x240. In addition, its compact size and low power capability help to meet the essential requisites for mass market distribution.

 

Above all things, it is made possible for the professional graphics designers and content develpers to save time and money in developing reality-rich contents by neglecting costly and time-consuming manual labor in depicting the reality thanks to automatic light effect-enabled scene generation.

 

Now, the company is ready to deploy its patent-protected display processing technology in various applications such as mobile and embedded application processors (AP), graphics processing unit (GPU) in game console devices and graphics card, and even in smart TVs and also expect to deliver unprecedented visual experiences to consumers, device manufacturers, professional graphics designers and content developers.

 

Other advanced features such as muliple light source, phongshading, alpha-blending, anti-aliasing, dynamic and static scene support, and stereoscopic 3D display function provide enhanced visual experience. RayCore® is available for licensing.