Melco WHP-PS graphics-card family is recorded in the 1997 GPU research cohort under Melco. The current display name and classification are normalization proposals.
Source product name
WHP-PS series
Source model number
WHP-PS4;WHP-PS8
Source manufacturer
Melco Incorporated
Research scope
PC/AT-compatible and PC-9821 systems; retail board channel
Why it existed
manufacturer stated
PCI 2-D/3-D graphics expansion for PC/AT-compatible and PC-9821 systems
Intended users: PC/AT-compatible and PC-9821 graphics-card buyers
Engineering response: WHP-PS4 and WHP-PS8 PCI boards using PERMEDIA 2
Contemporary report identifies two Melco PCI graphics-board configurations and their target system contexts.
No shared workload, driver, or test system supports a benchmark comparison; late-October shipment is only a window.
What difference it made
Comparable benchmark evidence has not been established for this record. Missing results do not imply poor performance.
Release evidence
The year above is a research-cohort label. Announcement, production, shipment and retail availability are distinct events.
Proposed event
board family announcement with stated shipment window
Proposed timing
1997-09-11 · exact precision
Assessment
proposed
The contemporary report supports the family identity, exact announcement, and stated shipment window without splitting the two output/memory variants into new records.
Report identifies WHP-PS4/WHP-PS8 and stated late-October shipment.
Follow-up: Retain family; do not split variants without new evidence.
Original intake sources
These notes preserve the state at intake. Later verification is shown under Release evidence above; an original note saying verification had not occurred is not the current assessment.