There goes 3dfx...

[isochar]

http://firingsquad.gamers.com/news/n...?searchid=2545

Did I call it or did I call it? http://forums.murc.ws/ubb/Forum3/HTML/002704.html

[paulcs]

http://biz.yahoo.com/prnews/001215/ca_3dfx_in.html

So much for the video wars.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[dZeus]

today is a black friday in Computer History!

[Greebe]

Just another classic example of how piss poor the US judicial system is and how business's are allowed to operate in todays market. Sad but true.

[paulcs]

It's bad news. It even seems to be giving people on the NVIDIA newgroup the creeps.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[PR-man]

Hopefully the FTC starts to eye Nvidia more closely now

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[Himself]

One card to rule them all, one card to find them, one card to bring them all and in the darkness bind them, in the land of NVIDIA where the shadows lie.

[Admiral]

Hope Rambus kills them, ither in court or with the products (if they'll use Rambus tehnology).
Actually, better not, it will just make Rambus stronger

Someone kill them both... and also add Creative to the list if they can

[paulcs]

Boy, Rambus getting away with what its trying to do is a heck of a lot worse than NVIDIA purchasing 3dfx. Gamers make up a sexy (God forbid ), high profile market. They are not nearly as important (nor mutually exclusive from) nearly every single person on the planet who intends to use a PC in the near future.

I still think it's a bad day for us "unimportant in the grand scheme of things" but "sexy and high profile" gamers and hardware hobbiests.

Paul
paulcs@flashcom.net

[dZeus]

ah, Rambus will kill itself when they will sue Rambus for using Rambus!

But if you want to terminate all the companies we love, terminate Pinnacle too... I've had enough of them

[This message has been edited by dZeus (edited 16 December 2000).]

[Bohrn]

I'm with Himself on this one...

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[jackzod]

But from a far far country will come from the feeble, the one that will restore the power that once had been...

(just to add to himself Tolkien's fantasy)

Who will be the hobbit ?

[Himself]

I think I could even live with RamBus rather than have the only choice in video cards be something from NVIDIA. That's where it's headed, that's their stated policy, total domination of the video card industry.

[alessandro]

"3DFX is DEAD"

This is what i told a guy some days ago and i was 10000% Correct!!!!

Matrox give as a solution NOW!!!!!

By the way guys the LEADER right now in ht Gfx cards is ATI and the war for a year now is between ATI and Nvidia.....who talked about Nvidia vs 3Ddx War???????????
Even Matrox has more market % than 3dfx right now!!!!!



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[superfly]

I really don't think that they'll be able to acheive that,at least not in the near term.

I mean ATI is just as big as nvidia is,and they can certainly compete with them if they can keep delivering on their product scedule.

There's also the matter of the FTC approval,if in a couple years down the line,Nvidia becomes the sole video card maker on the market,the FTC would probably be all over them like a cheap suit... .

For instance,the only reason intel doesn't buy AMD is because the the FTC complications that would most surely arise.

Remember the commission was actually powerful enough to break up the largest phone company(BELL)into smaller long distance phone companies(ATT,SPRINT,Bell cananda,etc..)

But in any case,this potentially makes Nvidia a much tougher company to compete against since they have all tech they could ever need to develop the next several generations of video cards.

It's also a given that 3dfx's best and brightest will be hired by nvidia to continue the work they started while working at 3dfx