Sabrewolf Posted November 15, 2000 Share Posted November 15, 2000 http://cnnfn.cnn.com/2000/11/14/technology/3dfx/ Lets hope they cut price Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Maximus Posted November 15, 2000 Share Posted November 15, 2000 Just read the article. Ironic isn't it? Seems they just couldn't keep up with the GeForce chips. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Pillar Posted November 15, 2000 Share Posted November 15, 2000 Read carefully Maximus. They are still competing in the chip market. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juardis Posted November 15, 2000 Share Posted November 15, 2000 Glad to hear that! They made a mistake buying STB (although at the time I agreed with the acquisition) and now they're owning up to it. Unfortunately for me, I lost money in their damned stock during that time, but still...I love their products. ------------------ Jeff Abbott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jpinard Posted November 15, 2000 Share Posted November 15, 2000 Juardis - sorry to hear you lost money on them. It's going to be a very long time before they release anything new... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest kking199 Posted November 15, 2000 Share Posted November 15, 2000 This is bad news, I hope they stay in the market. Competition is what the consumer needs, whomever you think is the best, the current Voodoo and GeForce cards would not be what they are without the other. 3Dfx created the market, my first two 3D cards were Voodoo's, but Nvidia really hit a home run with the Geforce cards. I hope the other smaller chip makers keep at it to keep Nvidia honest. I am sure they are having a party at Nvidia HQ's though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jeff Heidman Posted November 15, 2000 Share Posted November 15, 2000 I wa sunder the impression that 3dFX is intending to basically do what NVidia is doing; design and release chipsets to sell to other manufacturers. If that is the case, this could be good for the market. This evens the playing field between the two companies, and allows for a wide varity of choice for the consumer. Now you will not have to limit your choice of Voodoo graphics cards to those made only by 3dFX. Jeff Heidman Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
BlitzForce Posted November 16, 2000 Share Posted November 16, 2000 Their bad move was to stop licensing chips to third party maunfacturers Tough luck, business is ruthless, poor decisions cost lives Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TBlaster Posted November 16, 2000 Share Posted November 16, 2000 I think some of you are misunderstanding what 3dfx is doing. They are NOT exiting the chip market, they are outsourcing their graphic card manufactoring capability. In other words, they will be just as they were before they bought STB. And I think their next chip (codename Rampage) is not that far off in the future. Tom Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Juardis Posted November 16, 2000 Share Posted November 16, 2000 <BLOCKQUOTE>quote:</font><HR>Originally posted by jpinard: Juardis - sorry to hear you lost money on them. It's going to be a very long time before they release anything new...<HR></BLOCKQUOTE> Thanks. It was actually my fault for not selling when it was above 30$. I got greedy. Anyway, it sounds like they're going back to making the chips like they were when they were making Voodoo2's. They then sell the chips to vid card makers (Creative, Guillemot, Elsa, Asus, etc) so that THEY make the cards. This is the way it was, this is the way nVidia does things, and this is the way 3dfx will go back to doing business. Unfortunately, there aren't as many card makers as there used to be. Diamond is gone, Canopus is gone, STB is gone. But as I said above, this is a good move for 3dfx. They obviously sucked at making cards but they are very good at making chips. ------------------ Jeff Abbott Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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