[EDIT]hmmm.....whats going on at AMD? (and history of 3Dfx Rampage)

[BoFox]

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.

Actually, the 3dfx engineers had Rampage ready but they were all laid off before these cards were mass produced.  If Rampage came out, it would have blown Geforce3 out of the water, and given ATI even more competition with their late Radeon 8500.  One guy actually has a working Rampage sample and included quite a bit detail about it in his blog:
http://www.thedodgegarage.com/3dfx/rampage.htm
It was actually going to be called Specter 1000/2000/3000, moving away from the Voodoo brand name. 

I always knew that 3dfx should've never bought STB before they pulled the trigger.  It was unbelievable how quickly they ran head-first into a financial wall - and what is even more unbelievable is how AMD has been miraculously surviving the chronic bleeding for years now.

I've been hearing rumors of Sony completely shutting down everything except for the console (PS4) dept and the Hollywood movie production studio.  Sony's showcase store in Manhattan near the Rockefeller center is sadly gone.  I really liked that place.