We can go ahead and put any plans to compare NV20 to the Rampage to rest. I have been told by my close friend that works for 3dfx that the Rampage was just cancelled yesterday.
He said they had a company meeting (all hands) which was under a sort of secret "NDA" like thing.
Employees were told at this meeting the following:
1) There will be no Rampage produced due to lack of capital to finance this project with the poor sales of the Voodoo 5 products.
2) The high cost of development and research used to produce the V5-6000 was the back breaker. They spent in excess of $100 Million just on the Voodoo 5 alone, and sales haven't even begun to make up for this amount of expenditure.
3) The V5 was the last commercial video card to be produced by 3dfx. According to the president of the company who conducted the meeting, the company will now focus on 3d chips for arcade use and also the same plans as before, to develop products for other parts of the computer market instead of the video card area.
4) This is the same person who told me 6 months ago that the Voodoo 6 would never be produced. If you go back that far you can find my post when people were bragging about how the V5-6k would spank the Geforce 2. I stated in that post with confidence that the V5-6k would not be produced. My source is accurate and believeable.
5) Why would my friend talk when he could lose his job? Simple, he knows the company is doomed. He is currenty seeking employment elsewhere. (Nvidia to be exact..) In fact, he already interviewed there this past week.
He said they had a company meeting (all hands) which was under a sort of secret "NDA" like thing.
Employees were told at this meeting the following:
1) There will be no Rampage produced due to lack of capital to finance this project with the poor sales of the Voodoo 5 products.
2) The high cost of development and research used to produce the V5-6000 was the back breaker. They spent in excess of $100 Million just on the Voodoo 5 alone, and sales haven't even begun to make up for this amount of expenditure.
3) The V5 was the last commercial video card to be produced by 3dfx. According to the president of the company who conducted the meeting, the company will now focus on 3d chips for arcade use and also the same plans as before, to develop products for other parts of the computer market instead of the video card area.
4) This is the same person who told me 6 months ago that the Voodoo 6 would never be produced. If you go back that far you can find my post when people were bragging about how the V5-6k would spank the Geforce 2. I stated in that post with confidence that the V5-6k would not be produced. My source is accurate and believeable.
5) Why would my friend talk when he could lose his job? Simple, he knows the company is doomed. He is currenty seeking employment elsewhere. (Nvidia to be exact..) In fact, he already interviewed there this past week.
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