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Creative to leave the video card market?

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Taz4158

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I've heard this rumour before with their stopping the fasttrax program now this:

Creative to leave graphics business
12:44 Alecs


Our reliable sources close to Creative informed us that next year Creative would leave the graphics cards business. There are several reasons to make such a decision:
1. They produced too many TNT2 M64 based cards, the sales of which are not so good and the profits are low
2. They were to late to enter the market with their GF2 MX based solution (and this solution look not so good as it should be from NVIDIA's partner No.1)
3. Their product line based on GeForce2 family chips is too narrow (for NVIDIA's partner No.1 - one GF2 MX card, GF2 GTS card, and GF2 Ultra card (all cards are without any additional features)
4. NVIDIA (according to different sources) is not satisfied with this partnership
At the same time ASUS made a great step forward at the graphics market and in partnership with NVIDIA - from Jan'2001 ASUS is NVIDIA's official partner No.1.
At the same time it is interesting to notice that next year NVIDIA is going to enter graphics card market with its own brand name. Don't you think 'Voodoo' is good to start with?
As for Creative they will concentrate on sound cards, MP3 players, etc., but we won't see low cost sound cards from Creative too - they will only produce Live! family cards.

From this source:


Source

One of their engineers on another board seems to confirm this.
 
I hope they are JUST a Rumour becasue I don't want Creative to stop making graphics cards! They make very high quality cards and it would be a shame for them to not make them any more!

SKY.
 
NOOOOOO....... please don't do that to me. I just trade my GeForce2 GTS 64MB for GeForce2 Ultra. I really hate it ends there. 🙁
 


<< At the same time it is interesting to notice that next year NVIDIA is going to enter graphics card market with its own brand name. >>



Uh-oh ... we've seen this before:

S3 makes its own boards = DEAD
3dfx makes its own boards = DEAD
Aureal makes its own boards = DEAD (humm ... i'm not quite sure about this one ...)


 
Kuk:

Anothing add to your listing.

I makes my own boards = DEAD.

I think I shorted my card somehow, been send back to Creative Labs for replacement. 🙂
 
CL should only make sound cards.. I'd tried several of their geforce cards, and they were pretty disappointing.
 


<< CL should only make sound cards.. I'd tried several of their geforce cards, and they were pretty disappointing. >>



How disappointing? Maybe from a features standpoint... but performance, support, reliability was always great or on par with the rest of the GeForce cards.
 
i think this is a wise choice for them, they should concentrate on their sound cards more. Their graphics cards were okay at best, never offering anything more than the reference board though. Their cards are just so boring to look at....

Oh BTW, Ati makes their own cards and i dont see them dying anytime soon....
 
ATI has always made their own cards though. Companies that started out only making chipsets and then selling them to board makers, don't seem to do too well when they try to start making their own boards (which means they stop selling to other board makers, and they also tend to kill one of those board makers in the process because they buy them out in order to get the assets which are used to make the boards).
 
I sure hope they don't leave the video card market 🙁
I love my creative annihilator 2, it's stable and affordable
 
I repeat*****CL is NOT***** leaving the vidcard market. The same day that article came out, CL publicly shot the rumour down.
 
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