GoldenBear
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This may be a really stupid question, but I see that Anand has a preview of future S3 cards..but didn't they fold about a year ago?
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Hmm, didn't S3 drop out of the video card market?
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Joemonkey
Diamond Member
it may SEEM like the folded due to the fact that all their cards/chipsets sux0red, but after they bought out diamond MM, they have been quietly working on their newer version of the savage chipset. hopefully they will be able to do something nice with it, rather than just make an affordable, POS video card like they have in the past.
Hawkeye_(BEL)
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Via bought them.
Via needs integrated graphics to put them in their future mobile chipsets for Palomino. Because S3 still has something of a 'marketname', Via keep putting out cards with the S3 label.
But they aren't big developers anymore, they're just squeezing everything out of their (flopped) Savage4 & 2000 cores...
Via needs integrated graphics to put them in their future mobile chipsets for Palomino. Because S3 still has something of a 'marketname', Via keep putting out cards with the S3 label.
But they aren't big developers anymore, they're just squeezing everything out of their (flopped) Savage4 & 2000 cores...
S3 is now known as SonicBlue and is publicly traded as SBLU. They sold their graphics division to VIA in April 2000 and now focus on Internet Appliances. They acquired Diamond Multimedia, mostly for the RIO player, I guess. Recent acquisitions include Sensory Sciences, of dual deck VCR fame, and Replay TV... a competitor to Tivo in the digital tv recording arena. Sensory Sciences makes some neat toys, like a Soundaround Reciever combined with a DVD player and some MP3 gadgets.
S3 'just' sold they whole Savage4 and Savage2k core logic and its license to Via, and Stop the R&D for future product, but they wanted to come back now I guess,
with Paramount, a sup-up combination of both Savage4's 3D and S2k's 2D, its mainly for Laptop graphic.
and with FireGL 4, its for industrial purposes
check out xbitlab's news.
with Paramount, a sup-up combination of both Savage4's 3D and S2k's 2D, its mainly for Laptop graphic.
and with FireGL 4, its for industrial purposes
check out xbitlab's news.