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At a time Bitboys (Oy) tech was this great vaporware that every once in a while came out with these amazing screenshots that blew out of the water everything we
by Keyframe 2y ago
At a time Bitboys (Oy) tech was this great vaporware that every once in a while came out with these amazing screenshots that blew out of the water everything we saw from 3d accelerators out there with a perpetual "soon"/"just you wait". I guess they never found the funds for it.. and googling I see Nokia bought into it which is straight to grave move even back then.
- aappleby 2y agoI think the Bitboys chip was something different, the game studio I was at at the time did get actual test hardware for the Pyramid3D.
- djmips 2y agoYes, I don't think the poster was implying that.
- pavlov 2y agoBitboys was acquired for $44 million by ATI in 2006. The tech was real, they just had bad luck with manufacturing partners. Eventually they pivoted to 2D graphics accelerators and that became the successful business. ATI later sold it to Qualcomm, I think, where it became part of their mobile graphics stack.
- deaddodo 2y agoYeah, the BitBoys team was merged into the Imageon team, which evolved into Adreno when ATI/AMD spun it off to Qualcomm.