For those that missed it on Voodoo Extreme:
<< There's not much to say. I think a lot of people saw this coming in one way or another -- to be honest, I expected an acquisition by ATI or NVidia, not just the flat out closing of doors. This is a big part of the consolidation of the 3D accelerator market. Look how many of the early 3D manufacturers have effectively disappeared -- 3DLabs is a non-factor in the consumer market; 3Dfx is closing shop; Rendition was acquired then slowly disappeared; S3's graphics interests were sold to VIA and now have kind of disappeared; Intel backed off from its own venture with Real3D; Matrox has backed off of 3D acceleration; Videologic/PowerVR's swan song was the Dreamcast; and several other manufacturers never proved to be relevant at all or quickly faded (Cirrus Logic, Oak, TriTech, Trident and C&T).
This leaves Nvidia and ATI dominating the market, and to be frank, I don't think ATI is going to be able to hang on much longer. ATI has systematic problems delivering hardware on time and drivers in a stable fashion. ATI can still turn around, but if there isn't a Radeon follow on pretty soon with rock solid drivers, ATI can pretty much say good night. >>
How's that for ATi bashing.
<< There's not much to say. I think a lot of people saw this coming in one way or another -- to be honest, I expected an acquisition by ATI or NVidia, not just the flat out closing of doors. This is a big part of the consolidation of the 3D accelerator market. Look how many of the early 3D manufacturers have effectively disappeared -- 3DLabs is a non-factor in the consumer market; 3Dfx is closing shop; Rendition was acquired then slowly disappeared; S3's graphics interests were sold to VIA and now have kind of disappeared; Intel backed off from its own venture with Real3D; Matrox has backed off of 3D acceleration; Videologic/PowerVR's swan song was the Dreamcast; and several other manufacturers never proved to be relevant at all or quickly faded (Cirrus Logic, Oak, TriTech, Trident and C&T).
This leaves Nvidia and ATI dominating the market, and to be frank, I don't think ATI is going to be able to hang on much longer. ATI has systematic problems delivering hardware on time and drivers in a stable fashion. ATI can still turn around, but if there isn't a Radeon follow on pretty soon with rock solid drivers, ATI can pretty much say good night. >>
How's that for ATi bashing.
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