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3Dfx History: The GPU’s Great Turning Point?

posted by Fnord666 on Monday February 19 2018, @03:22PM   
from the history-repeats-itself dept.

MrPlow writes:

Submitted via IRC for TheMightyBuzzard

Today's startup companies seem to have a certain arc to them—they get some seed funding, they launch, they draw some interest for their good idea, they keep growing, and maybe they become a part of the fabric of our lives ... or a part of the fabric of a significantly larger company. Strangely, 3Dfx didn't so much draw interest as blow the lid off of a trend that redefined how we think of video games. Its graphics processing units were just the right technology for their time. And, for that reason, the company was everywhere for a few years ... until it wasn't. So, what happened—why did 3Dfx turn into a cautionary tale? Today's Tedium sifts through all the polygons and the shaded textures. — Ernie @ Tedium

Source: https://tedium.co/2018/02/14/3dfx-history-failure/

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• old stuff from green site (Score: 2, Interesting) by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 19 2018, @11:09PM

  by Anonymous Coward on Monday February 19 2018, @11:09PM (#640322)

  https://tech.slashdot.org/story/00/12/21/1810239/3dfxgigapixel-where-did-it-go-wrong [slashdot.org]
  https://tech.slashdot.org/story/02/09/26/1156217/the-last-days-at-3dfx [slashdot.org]

  still remember these good old threads on industrial history...

  there are more but dont have so old links, and spnd only 10 sec on a google search... =)

  -zug

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