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How the Kindness of Sega Saved Nvidia from Going Under
- djmips 3y agoSega should have got equity for that...
- blackeyeblitzar 3y agoWow what a great bit of history in gaming and computing. I wonder if Jensen Huang has thought about paying back Irimajiri-san now that Nvidia is a giant. It would also be fun to see Nvidia revive Sega to greatness.
- iforgotpassword 3y agoRather when Sega struggled in the early 2000s and left the console hardware business, Jensen had a good laugh about them and bought himself a new leather jacket or something.
- exceptione 3y agoFunny, I had to look him up to see what you could possible mean here.
- jakozaur 3y agoThis is a more dramatic version but less accurate. The better take is on: https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/nvidias-aborted-nv2-chip-and-near-disasterous-early-history.405942/ https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/nvidias-aborted-nv2-chip-a... 1. Sega knew earlier that triangle architecture made more sense, but NVIDIA did not comply. Sega had already distanced itself from NVIDIA but could not kill the deal. 2. NV2 never worked. NVIDIA also realised it was going the wrong path. It came back to Sega and decided to kill the deal mutually. 3. Jensen picked a better leader, David Kirk, and focused on NV3, also known as RIVA128.
- sheepscreek 3y agoI still remember reading the early reviews on Riva TNT and getting all giddy about it. “Finally a real competitor to 3D Voodoo FX cards (3Dfx)”, I thought. Good times.
- joshstrange 3y agoWayback Machine link, site looks like it’s down (probably from HN traffic?): https://web.archive.org/web/20230525081516/https://forums.guru3d.com/threads/nvidias-aborted-nv2-chip-and-near-disasterous-early-history.405942/ https://web.archive.org/web/20230525081516/https://forums.gu...
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- moribvndvs 3y agoIn case you’re like me and balked at the “first GPU” claim, they mean first design that integrated hardware T&L, clipping, and rendering on a single chip, a definition conveniently made by nVidia themselves.