MultiChrome is a technique by S3 Graphics

S3 Graphics

S3 Graphics, Ltd is an American company specializing in graphics chipsets. Although they do not have the large market share that they once had, they still produce graphics accelerators for home computers under the "S3 Chrome" brand name.-History:...

 to couple multiple graphics chips for better performance. It has first been used in the Chrome S20 series

Chrome S20 series

-Overview:Chrome 20 series was launched on 2005-11-3, with Chrome S25 and Chrome S27 as the initial products. Both cores use Fujitsu's 90 nm process...

 and later in Chrome 400 series

S3 Graphics Chrome 400

-History:VIA planned the production of 2 new graphics chips, Chrome 440 and 430, by the end of 2007. The Chrome 460 will support DirectX 10 and adopts a 90 nm process, while the Chrome 430 will support DirectX 10.1 and adopts a 65nm process. The Chrome 400 series was codenamed 'Destination'...

 graphics processors. The technology is comparable to NVidia's SLI

Scalable Link Interface

Scalable Link Interface is a brand name for a multi-GPU solution developed by NVIDIA for linking two or more video cards together to produce a single output...

 and ATi/AMD's Crossfire

ATI CrossFire

AMD CrossFireX is a brand name for the multi-GPU solution by Advanced Micro Devices, originally developed by ATI Technologies. The technology allows up to four GPUs to be used in a single computer to improve graphics performance.-First-generation:CrossFire was first made available to the public...

 multi video adapter solution.

At the moment, due to the speed of the Chrome S20 and Chrome 400 chipsets, no special connectors are required to bridge both cards to activate MultiChrome. Also, unlike NVidia or ATi's solution, the technology is not locked to a particular chipset.

See also

• Scalable Link Interface
  Scalable Link Interface
  Scalable Link Interface is a brand name for a multi-GPU solution developed by NVIDIA for linking two or more video cards together to produce a single output...
  
   - NVidia's multi-card solution
• ATI CrossFire
  ATI CrossFire
  AMD CrossFireX is a brand name for the multi-GPU solution by Advanced Micro Devices, originally developed by ATI Technologies. The technology allows up to four GPUs to be used in a single computer to improve graphics performance.-First-generation:CrossFire was first made available to the public...
  
  - ATI's multi-card solution