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com
Company Snapshot
• Multi Graphics-Processing-Unit (n GPU)

• Serving the fast growing graphics PC gaming and professional HPC market

• Status
• Gen1 (130nM) in production now
• Gen2 (65nM) in production now
• Over 50+ patents
• 60 Employees

• Backed by strong VCs: Rho Ventures, Giza VC, Genesis Partners & ICAP
• First Funding in Aug 2005
• Raised $32M to date

• Operating from Kfar Netter, Israel

• Business Headquarters in North America


The Team
 Management
 Moshe Steiner, CEO
 Offir Remez, co-founder, President and VP BD
 David Belz, VP R&D
 Pat Chiumiento, VP Marketing and Sales
 Alex Joffe, CTO
 Prof. Reuven Bakalash, co-founder, CSO

 Advisory Board
 Nick Triantos, former VP & Chief SW Architect at Nvidia
 Dr. Uri Weiser, former Intel Fellow and Chief architect at Intel Corporation

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Our Mission

Enable Scalable Parallel Graphics From


High End To Mass Market Gaming Platforms

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Play Avatar Game Quality ?

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Or Play Avatar Movie Quality !

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HYDRA Chip– A Parallel Graphics Unit

• Load balancing for optimal performance experience (FPS)

• ASIC and driver components


• Embedded distribution and graphics End Point
• Integrated high speed PCIe switch
• Supports any GPU vendor

• Scalable - Performance increase for any GPU


• Compatible – DX9c and DX10.1 and soon DX11
• Seamless/Generic - To application, Chipset and GPU

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HYDRA Performance Engine in High Level

Off-the-shelf
What does HYDRA solution do ? application

D3D
1. Real time analysis of application
Data/command
Traversal Layer
2. Run-time scaling mode per frame
Application analysis and
task

3. Manage and monitor execution


Scheduler/Loadbalancer

Manage, Monitor and


HYDRA
4. Distribute, Broadcast, Share and driver
Distribute

Recompose
Multiple Task/data parallel
off-the-shelf Rendering & Execution
GPUs
Universal Multi GPU Solution

• Generic game and GPU support


• Five Setup categories to configure
1. N-Mode - Identical Nvidia
2. N-Mode - Non Identical Nvidia
3. A-Mode - Identical ATI
4. A-Mode - Non Identical ATI
5. X-Mode - Multi Vendor
• Multi vendor and non-identical modes are unique to
Lucid Hydra
Motherboard Deployment
Motherboard
CPU

Root Complex

x16

X8 or x16 X8 or x16

AiB 1 AiB 2

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AiB Deployment
Motherboard
CPU

Root Complex

x16

Add in board

X8 or x16 X8 or x16

GPU 1 GPU 2

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HYDRA Engine Advantages
• A mass market solutions
• Universal - Support both ATI and Nvidia
• Easy upgrade – Support Non-Identical GPUs
• SLI/CF connector free

• Lowest power consumption


• About 3.5W for Gen1
• Under 6W for Gen2

• Small footprint
• Gen1 – 35mm2
• Gen2 – 23mm2 (48 lanes, 2 x 16X or 4x 8X)
• Gen2 – 18mm2 (24 lanes)

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Market Opportunity (over 40M units in ‘10)

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MSI and Lucid

A valuable long-term partnership


Winning designs to our customers world wide

The Sky Is The Limit

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