Editing IBM 8514 (section)

==History==
The 8514 was introduced with the [[IBM PS/2]] computers in April 1987. It was an optional upgrade to the [[Micro Channel architecture]] based PS/2's [[Video Graphics Array]] (VGA), and was delivered within three months of PS/2's introduction.

Although not the first PC video card to support [[hardware acceleration]], IBM's 8514 is often credited{{by whom|date=December 2016}} as the first PC mass-market [[fixed-function]] accelerator. Up until the 8514's introduction, PC graphics acceleration was relegated to expensive [[workstation]]-class, graphics [[coprocessor]] boards. [[Coprocessor]] boards (such as the [[Truevision TGA|TARGA]] Truevision series) were designed around special CPU or [[digital signal processor]] chips which were programmable. Fixed-function accelerators, such as the 8514, sacrificed programmability for better cost/performance ratio.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}

Later compatible 8514 boards were based on the [[Texas Instruments]] [[TMS34010]] chip.{{citation needed|date=December 2016}}

Even though the 8514 was not a best-seller, it created a market for fixed-function PC graphics accelerators which grew exponentially in the early 1990s. {{citation needed|date=December 2016}}

The ''[[ATI Mach series|ATI Mach]] 8'' and ''Mach 32'' chips were popular [[Clone (computing)|clones]], and several companies (notably [[S3 Graphics|S3]]) designed graphics accelerator chips which were not register compatible but were conceptually very similar to the 8514/A.<ref name="google">{{Cite news |last1=Córdova |last2=Zelnick |date=June 11, 1991 |title=$520 Adapter Marries 8514/A, TIGA Graphics |pages=58 |work=PC Magazine |url=https://archive.org/details/bub_gb_LNhQLiJ8TgQC/page/n67/mode/2up}}</ref>

The 8514 was superseded by IBM [[XGA]]. 

The [[Video Electronics Standards Association|VESA]] Group introduced a common standardized way to access features like hardware cursors, Bit Block transfers ([[Bit blit|Bit Blt]]), off screen [[Sprite (computer graphics)|sprites]], hardware panning, drawing and other functions with [[VESA_BIOS_Extensions#VBE/accelerator_functions_(VBE/AF)_(August_1996)|VBE/accelerator functions (VBE/AF)]] in August 1996.