Why did 3dfx Voodoo vid card maker die ?

[Mojo]

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Hi guy


Now that I may look at buying nForce4 SLI. Lets go back in time to my
first big 3D card buy.........3dfx Voodoo2. I bought two to use for
SLI, and they was not cheap back then. These voodoo rocked. The best
and fastest on the market. How can a company go from being Number #
1 to out of business in just a few years. ? ANYONE remember the
history of 3dfx and what happened to them.



Still have my Voodoo2 SLI in my PC just for the hell of
it...................................... Funny how low it benchmarks
now...................hehehheheheh


Thanks

 

[Guest]

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3DFX had put out a lot of cash and bought a company with some cutting edge
graphics technology.
They had hoped to use this cutting edge stuff to win a big contract to
supply graphics chips for an
upcoming game console (Xbox ?), they did not win the contract.
So I would assume the 3DFX management figured they did not have the cash
reserves
to keep the company going, so they sold 3DFX to Nvidia for around $115
million.
I would assume the 3dfx management got some really big golden parachutes out
of the deal.

"Mojo" <mojo@juno.com> wrote in message
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> Hi guy
>
>
> Now that I may look at buying nForce4 SLI. Lets go back in time to my
> first big 3D card buy.........3dfx Voodoo2. I bought two to use for
> SLI, and they was not cheap back then. These voodoo rocked. The best
> and fastest on the market. How can a company go from being Number #
> 1 to out of business in just a few years. ? ANYONE remember the
> history of 3dfx and what happened to them.
>
>
>
> Still have my Voodoo2 SLI in my PC just for the hell of
> it...................................... Funny how low it benchmarks
> now...................hehehheheheh
>
>
> Thanks
>

 

[Guest]

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"Mojo" <mojo@juno.com> wrote in message
news:19d9q0t0s08i8thaomk62uv6v68e0cnfgg@4ax.com...
> Hi guy
>
>
> Now that I may look at buying nForce4 SLI. Lets go back in time to my
> first big 3D card buy.........3dfx Voodoo2. I bought two to use for
> SLI, and they was not cheap back then. These voodoo rocked. The best
> and fastest on the market. How can a company go from being Number #
> 1 to out of business in just a few years. ? ANYONE remember the
> history of 3dfx and what happened to them.
>
>
>
> Still have my Voodoo2 SLI in my PC just for the hell of
> it...................................... Funny how low it benchmarks
> now...................hehehheheheh
>
>
> Thanks