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43-855: The i740 has a long and storied history that starts at GE Aerospace as part of their flight simulation systems, notable for their construction of the Project Apollo "Visual Docking Simulator" that was used to train Apollo Astronauts to dock the Command Module and Lunar Module. GE sold their aerospace interests to Martin Marietta in 1992, as a part of Jack Welch 's aggressive downsizing of GE. In 1995, Martin Marietta merged with Lockheed to form Lockheed Martin . In January 1995, Lockheed Martin re-organized their divisions and formed Real3D in order to bring their 3D experience to

86-482: A "customer-focused organizational realignment" that shed many of its divisions, and then closed Real3D on 1 October 1999 (following Calcomp in late 1998). Intel purchased the company's intellectual property , part of a series on ongoing lawsuits, but laid off the remaining skeleton staff. Some staff were picked up as contractors within Intel, while a majority were hired by ATI and moved to a new office. Intel also sold

129-629: A new engine, the TG-180, which was designated J35 by the US military. Development funds were allotted in 1946 for a more powerful version of the same design, the TG-190. This engine finally emerged as the famed General Electric J47 , which saw a great demand for several military aircraft; a second manufacturing facility in Evendale, Ohio , near Cincinnati , was opened. J47 production ran to 30,000 engines by

172-655: A scaled compressor with variable stator vanes, an annual combustor, turbine-cooling advancements, and new materials for several government research programs. The US Government initially supported development of the GE1 to produce the J97 engine. The GE1 design and technology helped General Electric produce a range of engines, including the GE1/6 turbofan demonstrator for the TF39 engine the GE4 for

215-451: A turbine consisting of 300 components with one piece. The electron beam melting has good speed for economy, precision to reduce processing work, and size capability for larger parts; the hot process reduces stresses in the part and penetrates deeper than laser for thicker parts with coarser, cheaper metal powders . Additive techniques can be used across the engine and even in the over 1,500 °F (820 °C) hot section. They are used in

258-503: Is an American aircraft engine supplier that is headquartered in Evendale, Ohio , outside Cincinnati . It is the legal successor to the original General Electric Company founded in 1892, which split into three separate companies between November 2021 and April 2024, adopting the trade name GE Aerospace after divesting its healthcare and energy divisions. GE Aerospace both manufactures engines under its name and partners with other manufacturers to produce engines. CFM International ,

301-679: Is the GEnx , a development of the GE90. The engine was also the exclusive power plant on the Boeing 747-8 . The Lynn facility continues to assemble jet engines for the United States Department of Defense , subsidiary services, and commercial operators. Engines assembled at this plant include the F404 , F414 , T700 , and CFE738 . The plant at Lynn also produces the -3 and -8 variants of

344-764: The Boeing 2707 supersonic airliner, and the GE9 engine for the USAF's Advanced Manned Strategic Aircraft, later GE F101 engines for the B-1 bomber.: The General Electric F101 was later developed into the General Electric F110 and CFM International CFM56 engines. The TF39 was the first high-bypass turbofan engine to enter production. Entered into the C-5 Galaxy contest in 1964 against similar designs from Curtiss-Wright and Pratt & Whitney , GE's entry

387-1039: The CF34 regional jet engine, the CT7 commercial turboprop power plant, and commercial versions of the T700 turboshaft which are also called the CT7. The Evendale plant conducts final assembly for the CFM International 's CFM56 , CF6 , as well as LM6000 , and LM2500 power plants. The Durham, North Carolina , facility conducts final assembly for the CFM LEAP , GEnx, CFM56, GE90 , GP7200, and CF34 power plants. Crucial parts for these engines are crafted in secondary GE Aviation facilities, such as those in Bromont, Quebec ; Hooksett, New Hampshire ; Wilmington, North Carolina ; Asheville, North Carolina ; Madisonville, Kentucky ; Rutland, Vermont ; and Muskegon, Michigan ; where

430-671: The CFE CFE738 , Pratt & Whitney on the Engine Alliance GP7000 , and, more recently, Honda for the GE Honda Aero Engines small turbofan project. GE also continued the development of its own lines, introducing new civilian models like the GE90 , and military designs like the General Electric F110 . GE and competitor Rolls-Royce were selected by Boeing to power its new 787 . GE Aviation's offering

473-679: The CT7 combustor liner, for GE9X low pressure turbine blades – the first rotating parts – and for 16 parts in the ATP , including an 80 parts heat exchanger consolidated into one. Calcomp Calcomp Technology, Inc. , often referred to as Calcomp or CalComp , was a company best known for its Calcomp plotters . It was founded as California Computer Products, Inc in 1959, located in Anaheim, California . Sanders Associates, Inc. , purchased Calcomp in 1980. In 1986, Sanders Associates

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516-635: The T58 and T64 turboshaft engines, the J85 turbojet, and F404 turbofan. Starting in 1961, General Electric started one of their most important research and development efforts, the GE1 technology demonstrator (originally designated the X101). The GE1 was a basic gas generator (compressor, combustor and turbine) onto which a variety of components such as fans, afterburners or other thrust vectoring devices could be added later. The design incorporated technologies such as

559-512: The T700 . It has been further developed as the CT7 turboprop engine for regional transports. In 1974 GE entered into an agreement with Snecma of France, forming CFM International to jointly produce a new mid-sized turbofan, which emerged as the CFM56 . A 50/50 joint partnership was formed with a new plant in Evendale, OH to produce the design. At first, sales were very difficult to come by, and

602-586: The Voodoo2 , and was only able to hold its own with slower 2D/3D cards like the Nvidia RIVA 128 . The release of the Nvidia RIVA TNT removed even that advantage. By the end of the year it went largely unmentioned in benchmarks against newer 3D products, already forgotten. In August 1999, after less than 18 months on the market, Intel withdrew the i740 from the market. In September Lockheed announced

645-538: The 810 drivers. Another successor that was ultimately cancelled in September 2000 was the GPU (code-named Capitola ) to be used in conjunction with the similarly ill-fated Timna processor. Intel would later re-enter the discrete GPU market with the release of their Intel Arc cards in 2022, over 20 years after the failure of the i740. GE Aerospace General Electric Company , doing business as GE Aerospace ,

688-613: The I-40 (now known as the J33 ) was also handed to Allison Engines in 1944. After the war ended, the Army canceled its orders for GE-built J33s and turned the entire production over to Allison, and the Syracuse plant closed. These changes in fortune led to debate within the company about carrying on in the aircraft engine market. However, the engineers at Lynn pressed ahead with the development of

731-637: The Persian Gulf. On December 23, 2012, GE announced that it has agreed to purchase the aeronautical division of Avio , an Italy-based manufacturer of aviation propulsion components and systems for civil and military aircraft, for $ 4.3 billion U.S. (EUR3.3 billion). GE Aviation follows through to develop a supersonic engine concept for Aerion with a configuration accommodating reasonably well requirements for supersonic speed, subsonic speed and noise levels. On July 18, 2022, GE announced that GE Aviation had been renamed "GE Aerospace", and would become

774-459: The big loser here--it doesn't sell to the performance market. Intel has the resources to beat S3 on those terms and they have the performance". The i740 was released in February 1998, at $ 34.50 in large quantities. A number of companies had cards to introduce on that day. The i740 was clocked at 66Mhz and had 2-8MB of VRAM; significantly less than its competitors which had 8-32MB of VRAM, allowing

817-509: The card to be sold at a low price. The small amount of VRAM meant that it was only used as a frame buffer, hence it used the AGP interface to access the system's main memory to store textures; this was a fatal flaw that took away memory bandwidth and capacity from the CPU, reducing its performance, while also making the card slower since it had to go through the AGP interface to access the main memory which

860-531: The civilian market. Real3D had an early brush with success, providing chipsets and overall design to Sega , who used it in a number of arcade game boards, the Model 2 and Model 3. They also formed a joint project with Intel and Chips and Technologies (later purchased by Intel) to produce 3D accelerators for the PC market, under the code name "Auburn". Auburn was designed specifically to take advantage of (and promote)

903-499: The combined unit the clout to resist pricing pressures from its two largest customers, Boeing and Airbus . Analysts further assert that it enables General Electric to acquire assets similar to those it desired in its failed bid for Honeywell in 2000. Along with the purchase of Smiths Aerospace, the purchase included opening the first University Development Center at Michigan Technological University in Houghton, Michigan , in

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946-418: The divestiture of GE HealthCare and GE Vernova (its energy businesses division). General Electric had a long history in steam turbine work, dating back to the 1900s. In 1903 they hired Sanford Alexander Moss , who started the development of turbosuperchargers at GE. This led to a series of record-breaking flights over the next ten years. At first, the role of the high-altitude flight was limited, but in

989-742: The effort to work with engineering students to provide training in engineering and software development. The program has performed well and GE Aviation has announced further UDC openings at Kansas State University . In July 2008, governments in the Persian Gulf reached agreements with GE to expand engine maintenance operations there. The Wall Street Journal reported that Mubadala Development Company , which owns Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies, an overhaul, and maintenance company, signed an agreement worth an estimated $ 8 billion with GE; Abu Dhabi Aircraft Technologies will maintain and overhaul GE engines used in commercial aircraft purchased by airlines based in

1032-449: The engine blades and vanes are manufactured. Smiths Group and General Electric announced on January 15, 2007, that the former was divesting Smiths Aerospace to the latter for £ 2.4 billion ( US$  4.8 billion). GE Aviation closed the transaction on May 4, 2007. Smiths Aerospace, which was an important supplier, became an operating subsidiary of GE Aviation known as GE Aviation Systems . This acquisition will reportedly give

1075-528: The first US combat-capable jet fighters, the P-80 Shooting Star . Early jet engine work took place at GE's Syracuse, New York, (steam turbine) and Lynn, Massachusetts , (supercharger) plants, but soon concentrated at the Lynn plants. On 31 July 1945 the Lynn plant became the "Aircraft Gas Turbine Division". GE was repeatedly unable to deliver enough engines for Army and Navy demand, and production of

1118-554: The i740 to 3rd party companies, and some PCI versions of the accelerator also were made. They used an AGP-to-PCI bridge chip and had more on-board memory for storing textures locally on the card, and were actually faster than their AGP counterparts in some performance tests. In April 1999, Intel announced two successors to the i740: the i752 (code-named Portola ) and the i754 (code-named Coloma ). Improvements included support for multitexturing , anisotropic filtering , MPEG-2 motion compensation and DVI displays. Both chips would use

1161-411: The name of General Electric Aircraft Engines ( GEAE ) until September 2005, and as GE Aviation until July 2022. In July 2022, GE Aviation changed its name to GE Aerospace in a move executives say reflects the engine maker's intention to broaden its focus beyond aircraft engines. In April 2024, GE Aerospace became the only business line of the former General Electric conglomerate, after it had completed

1204-411: The press widely commented that it would drive all of the smaller vendors from the market. As the introduction approached, rumors of poor performance started circulating. In spite of this, pundits continued to agree that its release would have enormous effects on the market. Peter Glaskowsky noted that "Very few of the manufacturers have the access to the [manufacturing plants] that Intel does, S3 could be

1247-623: The project was due to be canceled. Only two weeks before this was to happen, in March 1979, several companies selected the CFM56 to re-engine their existing Douglas DC-8 fleets. By July 2010, CFM International had delivered their 21,000th engine of the CFM56 family, with an ongoing production rate of 1250 per year, against a four-year production backlog. The success of the CFM led GE to join in several similar partnerships, including Garrett AiResearch for

1290-566: The same core, the only difference being that the i752 would use a 2× AGP interface and the i754 a 4× AGP interface. However, the i754 was cancelled before release, and the i752 was released in limited quantities before it too was withdrawn, having shown only a marginal performance increase over its predecessor. The i752 and i754 cores were later used for the integrated graphics in the Intel 810 and 815 chipsets, respectively. Intel no longer hosts i752 drivers, and advises users of i752-based cards to use

1333-457: The successor to the GE company once the spinoffs of its subsidiaries are completed. GE Aerospace will own the GE trademark and logo, and will license the brand to the other companies, GE HealthCare and GE Vernova . Recently, they have started incorporating 3D printing technologies in their engines and have incorporated the manufacturing process in the newly designed GE9X , the largest jet engine in

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1376-659: The time the lines closed down in 1956. Further development of the J47 by led to the J73 , and from there into the much more powerful J79 . The J79 was GE's second "hit", leading to a production run of 17,000 in several different countries. The GE and Lockheed team that developed the J79 and the F-104 Mach 2 fighter aircraft received the 1958 Collier Trophy for outstanding technical achievement in aviation. Other successes followed, including

1419-465: The time, most accelerators used the CPU for triangle setup and geometry calculations, then handed the data off to the card to apply texture mapping and bilinear filtering . By leaving this data in main memory , and giving the graphics card a high-speed channel to the data, performance could be improved while also reducing the total amount of memory in the system. In the lead-up to the i740's introduction,

1462-499: The use of AGP interface, during the time when many competing 3D accelerators (notably, 3dfx Voodoo Graphics ) still used the PCI connection. A unique characteristic, which set the AGP version of the card apart from other similar devices on the market, was the use of on-board memory exclusively for the display frame buffer , with all textures being kept in the computer system's main RAM . At

1505-488: The world's leading supplier of aircraft engines and GE's most successful partnership, is a 50/50 joint venture with the French company Safran Aircraft Engines . As of 2020, CFM International holds 39% of the world's commercial aircraft engine market share (while GE Aerospace itself holds a further 14%). GE Aerospace's main competitors in the engine market are Pratt & Whitney and Rolls-Royce . The division operated under

1548-484: The world. GE acquired Arcam EBM for electron beam melting , Concept Laser for laser melting , and material provider AP&C. Metal casting improves through competition with metal additive manufacturing , for which GE Additive believes it will soon compete with metal forging which will then be enhanced in response. Additive manufacturing is focused on new builds but can be used for part replacement: when complexity rise, costs can stays level – for example, replacing

1591-475: The years immediately prior to WWII they became standard equipment on practically all military aircraft. GE was a world leader in this technology; most other firms concentrated on the mechanically simpler supercharger driven by the engine itself, while GE had spent considerable effort developing the exhaust-driven turbo system that offered higher performance. This work made them the natural industrial partner to develop jet engines when Frank Whittle 's W.1 engine

1634-551: Was a 3420 equivalent. Calcomp acquired Talos and Summagraphics, which had acquired Houston Instruments. Houston Instruments was another manufacturer of pen plotters . They used the DMPL plotting control language. They competed with Hewlett Packard plotters such as the HP 7470 . They were purchased by Summagraphics. In 1987, CalComp sold its computer division to a company that focuses on CAD/CAM . This California -related article

1677-520: Was demonstrated to Hap Arnold in 1941. A production license was arranged in September, and several of the existing W.1 test engines shipped to the US for study, where they were converted to US manufacture as the I-A . GE quickly started production of improved versions; the I-16 ( J31 ) was produced in limited numbers starting in 1942, and the much more powerful I-40 (J33) followed in 1944, which went on to power

1720-849: Was purchased by the Lockheed Corporation , and merged into Lockheed's Information Systems Group. Lockheed kept CalComp as a brand name. Calcomp Technology shut down its operations in 1999, and transferred different product lines to various other companies, some of whom continue to use the "Calcomp" or other "Cal-" trademarks : It produced a wide range of plotters (both drum and flat-bed), digitizers , thermal transfer color printers, thermal plotters (InfoWorld June 13, 1994 p. 40) and other graphic input/output devices. In 1969, it produced about 80% of all plotters worldwide. It also produced IBM plug compatible (PCM) disk and tape products. The disk products ranged from 2311 (CD-1,5, 17, 18, 24, 25) through 3350 equivalents. The tape product

1763-725: Was selected as the winner during the final down-select in 1965. This led to a civilian model, the CF6 , which was offered for the Lockheed L-1011 and McDonnell Douglas DC-10 projects. Although Lockheed later changed their engine to the Rolls-Royce RB211 , the DC-10 continued with the CF6, and this success led to widespread sales on many large aircraft including the Boeing 747 . Another military-to-civilian success followed when GE

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1806-515: Was selected to supply engines for the S-3 Viking and Fairchild Republic A-10 Thunderbolt II , developing a small high-bypass engine using technologies from the TF39. The resulting TF34 was adapted to become the CF34 , whose wide variety of models powers many of the regional jets flying today. In the early 1970s, GE was also selected to develop a modern turboshaft engine for helicopter use,

1849-468: Was slower than its VRAM. The AGP Texture concept soon proved to be a tremendous error in design, because the card had to constantly access the textures over a channel that was upwards of eight times slower than RAM placed on the graphics card itself. Although AGP did indeed improve performance of moving geometry, this was wiped away by the growing use of textures, which were much larger. In real-world use it proved to be much slower than existing solutions like

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