Does Anyone Care That Creative Is Buying Out 3DLabs?

[Banana]

I'm surprised there hasn't been any discussion of this takeover:

Creative re-enters graphics market

I had no idea that Creative was a Singapore company! Always thought it was American . . .

I wonder if Creative will even try to with NVid and ATi in the low-end graphics market (i.e. home users).

1YP

"Do you know what the Invid are?"

 

[Superwormy]

I do. It'll be interesting to see where 3DLabs goes as far as the highend workstation market. They just got the Wildcats not too long ago, maybe Creative can help with all of 3DLabs driver issues its had in the past.

On the other hand, what if they took 3DLabs tech and engineers and started making their own GPUs and became competition for crapVidia and ATIdiots? That'd be interesting.

 

[SlimHarpo]

Well, that's what's interesting about the buyout. They did in fact say that they're going to be going after the "mid to high-end consumer market" (don't remember the exact phrasing). There's a world of difference between a 3dlabs card and a gaming card, though. Maybe 3dlabs has been working on something more suited to the consumer market but kept it quiet. Creative doesn't seem like the kind of company that would bankroll the development of a gpu from the ground up, given the way they milk the life out of even their sound cards.

Be interesting to see what developers, anyway, and it'd be great to have a third player for sure.

 

[sandorski]

I dunno, CL is a black hole where promising technologies seem to mysteriously disappear into the ether.

 

[Operandi]

At first I didn?t know what to make it, didn?t make much sense. But after seeing this at Ace's Hardware things start to clearer. To me it looks like more of a merger then a buyout, 3Dlabs will still sell its own chips, but I have a feeling that Creative will have sole rights to this new "revolutionary" chip. We may see a new competitor to ATi and Nvida in the form of 3dLabs/Creative, I'm sure 3Dlabs is capable only time will tell though.

 

[dakata24]

170 GFLOPS? how's that compare to current video cards?