10-05-2015, 07:15 AM
(10-05-2015, 05:26 AM)SickBeast Wrote:(10-05-2015, 01:53 AM)RolloTheGreat Wrote:(10-05-2015, 12:04 AM)SickBeast Wrote: This is 3dfx 2.0. I wonder who will get their IP.
NO!
3dfx was an honorable company that did business in an ethical manner, it was sad when they folded.
AMD has pretty much destroyed the tech industry forums with their Advocates, and mislead the public on numerous occasions for their own gains. (E.G. Bulldozer hype they knew was not true, Fury X "overclocker's dream"- yeah, bad dream)
If they hadn't lied and cheated, they probably wouldn't be in the spot they're in. They had a large loyal following that was pretty used to them being second best.
I'm pretty sure I read somewhere that 3DFX died because their management got greedy and basically bled the company dry. Please correct me if I'm wrong.
One thing about 3DFX that is similar is they overextended themselves buying STB, but the other issue is they went from being an agile design company with many quality OEMs to selling only their own self produced cards.
The cards weren't as good as NVIDIA's so they died.