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instruction set needed some help in the graphics department. Enter 3Dfx Interactive. The pinnacle of 3Dfx's relatively short run - and where my story intersects with them - came in 1998 with the ...
However, in the mid-1990s, the startup "3dfx Interactive"With the 3D rendering abilities that overwhelm others, we succeeded in depriving the most powerful competitors and robbing the top share.
3Dfx Interactive is a brand that is long gone but not forgotten. It's a name known by many PC enthusiasts who experienced and survived the crazy hardware innovations of the 1990s that changed PC ...
If you did, you know how 3dfx Interactive feels. The once-high-flying maker of video, having squandered a golden brand name and bungled its business, now finds itself staring at a screen flashing ...
3dfx Interactive, a long-gone GPU manufacturer that was big in the 1990s, is poised to return to the world of graphics cards later this week, going by a tweet that has just been spotted.
Diagram of 3Dfx’s frame buffer interface chip. The SST-1 Graphics Engine from 3Dfx Interactive was the first video subsystem that enabled PCs and low-cost video game platforms to host true 3D ...
Why did the San Jose, Calif.-based graphics chip maker 3Dfx Interactive adopt a shareholder rights plan on November 3? Routine corporate decisions? Or was there a hostile bid in the making?
3dfx Interactive took the leashes off their big dogs a few weeks ago by releasing the Voodoo5 series of video cards for general sale. Many users are already glowing with admiration for the new ...
3dfx Interactive Inc. is returning to its roots. The company this week announced it will focus on developing manufacturing partnerships with third-party companies rather than building its own ...
3dfx Interactive, Inc. plans to sell most of the company's assets to NVIDIA Corp. for $112 million, it announced today. It called the move “an effort to protect its creditors and maximize shareholder ...
Nvidia Corp. is acquiring the graphics business of 3Dfx Interactive Inc., San Jose, Calif., for $107 million in cash and stock, and the two companies agreed to dismiss pending patent litigation ...