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Interesting! I remember that the field was very crowded in those days. It wasn't just Nvidia but many other companies trying to compete with 3Dfx. All of those
by landryraccoon 4y ago
Interesting! I remember that the field was very crowded in those days. It wasn't just Nvidia but many other companies trying to compete with 3Dfx. All of those companies have fallen by the wayside now.
What's surprising is that copying a product cadence seems like an easy thing to do. Any of their competitors could have made minor improvements / bug fixes to their products and released a new card at every conference as well, so why didn't anyone else do it?
- adastra22 4y agoNot really fallen by the wayside. PowerVR and ATI were the main competitors, and they very much still exist today (PowerVR powers arm chips, and ATI merged with AMD). There was a tile-based rendering chip startup that was also making waves around that time. I forget their name. IIRC they got bought out for their patents, and their architecture is very similar to what the Apple Silicon gpu does.