What 3DFX did was not necessarily a bad thing, it was a new thing for them and that made it a risky thing to do, but multiple processors on a single PCB isn't fundamentally bad or foolish to pursue.
That 3dfx tried and failed with that strategy while AMD tried and succeeded can be something for historians to determine the why's. Could be critically fatal management decisions at 3dfx during development of the V5 and V6 or critically enabling management decisions at AMD during the development of the 3870 X2.
In any event if you think about it back when Voodoo 5 was released there really wasn't much of a market for dekstop quad-core systems either...could you imagine the epic fail that would have been for AMD or Intel had they tried to release four cores on one socket to the desktop back then?
edit: missed a word
That 3dfx tried and failed with that strategy while AMD tried and succeeded can be something for historians to determine the why's. Could be critically fatal management decisions at 3dfx during development of the V5 and V6 or critically enabling management decisions at AMD during the development of the 3870 X2.
In any event if you think about it back when Voodoo 5 was released there really wasn't much of a market for dekstop quad-core systems either...could you imagine the epic fail that would have been for AMD or Intel had they tried to release four cores on one socket to the desktop back then?
edit: missed a word