Goodbye, Kyro!

[FatBurger]

STMicro has decided to pull out of the 3D graphics market. The Kyro seemed to have lots of potential for the mid-range market, and the Kyro III was still an unkown, could've gotten into the high-end market. Too bad.

<A HREF="http://www.siliconstrategies.com/story/OEG20020208S0016" target="_new">Link</A>

<font color=orange>Quarter</font color=orange> <font color=blue>Pounder</font color=blue> <font color=orange>Inside</font color=orange>

 

[HolyGrenade]

Woohoo! I never liked market pollution.

<font color=red><i>I refugee from Guatanamo Bay,
dance around the border like I'm Cassius Clay
</i></font color=red>

 

[AMD_Man]

This is very bad for everybody! Now, we can only rely on 2 companies for GPUs, ATI and nVidia. This spells seriously overpriced GPUs, unless ATI starts getting aggressive with their R8500 drivers and future products.

AMD technology + Intel technology = Intel/AMD Pentathlon IV; the <b>ULTIMATE</b> PC processor

 

[Jehdin]

This is definately sad, I was gonna look into the Kyro 3. But since their tech is up for sale, whichever company(ATI or Nvidia) buys it is gonna have one POWERFUL card!

<A HREF="http://gamershq.madonion.com/compare2k1.shtml?2600992" target="_new"> 3DMark 2001 Score </A>

 

[HolyGrenade]

It would be bad news if it was likely that the Kyro3 wouldn't be just another card to hold back technology from improving. But I don't know what it really wouldv've been like. The Kyro 2 was definitly market pollution though.

<font color=red><i>I refugee from Guatanamo Bay,
dance around the border like I'm Cassius Clay
</i></font color=red>

 

[flamethrower205]

don't forget matrox!

Only if you let me see the Umpa Lumpa- Homer Simpson.

 

[AMD_Man]

But Matrox has left the home/gaming card business.

AMD technology + Intel technology = Intel/AMD Pentathlon IV; the <b>ULTIMATE</b> PC processor

 

[flamethrower205]

I still like em though!

Only if you let me see the Umpa Lumpa- Homer Simpson.