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17-11-2000, 05:19:PM
3dfx article
posted November 15, 2000 at 12:06 PM MDT by Dan "Pakman" E - Discuss on Forums
The Register has an article on 3dfx pulling the plug on card production. It predicts that they will soon be bought out by another company :
With NVIDIA now dominating the desktop PC graphics chip market and with its sights firmly set on beating market leader ATI in the notebook space, too, 3dfx is in for a very tough ride, and the company knows it: "It's going to take time," Nayan Patel, divisional marketing manager of desktop graphics, told CNN. "It's not going to be a quick fix."
And, we suspect, not quick enough to prevent 3dfx being bought up. With its share price at a low hovering around the $4 mark, it's technology and brandname makes it a tempting purchase, particularly once it's shot of all its board factories.
Indeed, when a company gets this desperate, reaches such a low ebb, not many observers will even be willing to bet on it still being around in three years' time. Expect ATI, NVIDIA or a Via-style Taiwanese semiconductor conglomerate to whip out its checkbook real soon.
3dfx stops making video cards
posted November 14, 2000 at 3:43 PM MDT by Dan "Pakman" E - Discuss on Forums
CNN has news that 3dfx has abandoned it's hopes of manufacturing video cards, and that they will make an about face move back to being a chip supplier to other companies. After spending a wad of dough on STB, they will now have to sell the Mexican plants. Now, after having blown off all their past companies whom once made 3dfx cards, and steering them toward NVIDIA solutions, they'll have a lot of work to do in order to make it back to where they once where. I would have to give 3dfx an "F" for management. Can you say "Dog paddling to keep your head above the water"? :
Two years after striking out in a new direction, graphics-chip maker 3dfx is going back to its roots in an attempt to regain the company's dwindling strength in an increasingly tight market.
The company plans to close its Juarez, Mexico, card manufacturing plant and remove itself from the business of building the graphics cards that reside in desktop PCs. This is an abrupt switch from the December 1998 takeover of STB Systems, which 3dfx heralded as a move that would put them in charge of their own destiny. Instead, that move -- combined with numerous production delays and supply problems -- has removed the company from its once-dominant position in the industry.
"We're trying to be more fiscally responsible," said Lisa Grubb, a spokesperson for the company. "Basically, we're reinventing ourselves."
GeForce2 wins PC Magizine award
posted November 14, 2000 at 2:25 PM MDT by Dan "Pakman" E - Discuss on Forums
PC Magazine has bestowed the NVIDIA GeForce2 with it's award for Technical Excellence. It's no surprise that NVIDIA is lapping up all the accolades with this product. While I was at Comdex, I asked quite a few people from NVIDIA if the NV20 was going to be released soon since DirectX 8 was final. What I got was a range of answers from a sly smile with the answer "very soon" to "next spring" :
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 14, 2000--NVIDIA(TM) Corporation today announced it has earned the PC Magazine ``2000 Award for Technical Excellence'' in the Components category.
The award, chosen by PC Magazine staff and editors, recognizes NVIDIA's GeForce2(TM) family of GPUs as a breakthrough product and technology that sets the pace for the graphics industry and serves as a benchmark for innovation. The award was made in Las Vegas on Monday, November 13, 2000, at the COMDEX '00 global information technology industry trade show....
posted November 15, 2000 at 12:06 PM MDT by Dan "Pakman" E - Discuss on Forums
The Register has an article on 3dfx pulling the plug on card production. It predicts that they will soon be bought out by another company :
With NVIDIA now dominating the desktop PC graphics chip market and with its sights firmly set on beating market leader ATI in the notebook space, too, 3dfx is in for a very tough ride, and the company knows it: "It's going to take time," Nayan Patel, divisional marketing manager of desktop graphics, told CNN. "It's not going to be a quick fix."
And, we suspect, not quick enough to prevent 3dfx being bought up. With its share price at a low hovering around the $4 mark, it's technology and brandname makes it a tempting purchase, particularly once it's shot of all its board factories.
Indeed, when a company gets this desperate, reaches such a low ebb, not many observers will even be willing to bet on it still being around in three years' time. Expect ATI, NVIDIA or a Via-style Taiwanese semiconductor conglomerate to whip out its checkbook real soon.
3dfx stops making video cards
posted November 14, 2000 at 3:43 PM MDT by Dan "Pakman" E - Discuss on Forums
CNN has news that 3dfx has abandoned it's hopes of manufacturing video cards, and that they will make an about face move back to being a chip supplier to other companies. After spending a wad of dough on STB, they will now have to sell the Mexican plants. Now, after having blown off all their past companies whom once made 3dfx cards, and steering them toward NVIDIA solutions, they'll have a lot of work to do in order to make it back to where they once where. I would have to give 3dfx an "F" for management. Can you say "Dog paddling to keep your head above the water"? :
Two years after striking out in a new direction, graphics-chip maker 3dfx is going back to its roots in an attempt to regain the company's dwindling strength in an increasingly tight market.
The company plans to close its Juarez, Mexico, card manufacturing plant and remove itself from the business of building the graphics cards that reside in desktop PCs. This is an abrupt switch from the December 1998 takeover of STB Systems, which 3dfx heralded as a move that would put them in charge of their own destiny. Instead, that move -- combined with numerous production delays and supply problems -- has removed the company from its once-dominant position in the industry.
"We're trying to be more fiscally responsible," said Lisa Grubb, a spokesperson for the company. "Basically, we're reinventing ourselves."
GeForce2 wins PC Magizine award
posted November 14, 2000 at 2:25 PM MDT by Dan "Pakman" E - Discuss on Forums
PC Magazine has bestowed the NVIDIA GeForce2 with it's award for Technical Excellence. It's no surprise that NVIDIA is lapping up all the accolades with this product. While I was at Comdex, I asked quite a few people from NVIDIA if the NV20 was going to be released soon since DirectX 8 was final. What I got was a range of answers from a sly smile with the answer "very soon" to "next spring" :
LAS VEGAS--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Nov. 14, 2000--NVIDIA(TM) Corporation today announced it has earned the PC Magazine ``2000 Award for Technical Excellence'' in the Components category.
The award, chosen by PC Magazine staff and editors, recognizes NVIDIA's GeForce2(TM) family of GPUs as a breakthrough product and technology that sets the pace for the graphics industry and serves as a benchmark for innovation. The award was made in Las Vegas on Monday, November 13, 2000, at the COMDEX '00 global information technology industry trade show....