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/ Adam Richardson

Aureal Announces Vortex 2

Aureal Semiconductor Inc now has announced availability of the new Vortex 2 PCI audio processor -- the company's next generation solution for advanced audio features on personal computers.

Here is the latest August 1998 note from the PC gaming front: Aureal Announces Vortex 2.

Aureal Semiconductor Inc now has announced availability of the new Vortex 2 PCI audio processor — the company’s next generation solution for advanced audio features on personal computers. Vortex 2 is the only processor which provides dedicated processing power for A3D 2.0 positional 3D audio technology.

Enabled by the high-bandwidth PCI-bus and the AC’97 CODEC specification, Vortex 2 is PC ’98 compliant and more than doubles the performance characteristics of the original Vortex chip introduced one year ago.