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A lot has changed the last couple of years
looking at the PC graphics market...
before 'the great 3D revolution', there were many companies... now only a few remain.
Only 3Dfx, Matrox, ATI and nVidia (including all the graphicboard vendors they sell to) are left in the market.... the rest still exists either on a much lower scale, or in a different segment.
Before the 'war' we had these:
S3 - bought Diamond, and now stopped making new chips... graphics devision is being sold to VIA, and their technology will likely be used in integrated chipsets in the future. It's the speed of the 3D revolution that killed them. The first years they stayed behind with their Virge line of 'Decellerators', later on they introduced the Savage line, which either had hardware flaws (Savage3D, Savage2000 TnL), or mediocre performance (Savage4) and all had bad drivers
Trident - completely surprised by the 3D revolution, never released a chip of interest ever since... I think they still are active in the notebook market
Tseng Labs - never released a real 3D accelerating chip, bought out by ATI
Rendition - latest chip they released was the Verité 2200, and then they stopped pumping out chips, yet still designed them. The problem they had was that by the time their designs were finished, the specs were to outdated to compete with others. After some time Micron bought them, and they stil are working on a new chip(s)?
anyone else wants to finish the list? post it here...
[This message has been edited by dZeus (edited 20 August 2000).]
before 'the great 3D revolution', there were many companies... now only a few remain.
Only 3Dfx, Matrox, ATI and nVidia (including all the graphicboard vendors they sell to) are left in the market.... the rest still exists either on a much lower scale, or in a different segment.
Before the 'war' we had these:
S3 - bought Diamond, and now stopped making new chips... graphics devision is being sold to VIA, and their technology will likely be used in integrated chipsets in the future. It's the speed of the 3D revolution that killed them. The first years they stayed behind with their Virge line of 'Decellerators', later on they introduced the Savage line, which either had hardware flaws (Savage3D, Savage2000 TnL), or mediocre performance (Savage4) and all had bad drivers
Trident - completely surprised by the 3D revolution, never released a chip of interest ever since... I think they still are active in the notebook market
Tseng Labs - never released a real 3D accelerating chip, bought out by ATI
Rendition - latest chip they released was the Verité 2200, and then they stopped pumping out chips, yet still designed them. The problem they had was that by the time their designs were finished, the specs were to outdated to compete with others. After some time Micron bought them, and they stil are working on a new chip(s)?
anyone else wants to finish the list? post it here...
[This message has been edited by dZeus (edited 20 August 2000).]
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