>> This tale brings up many “what ifs.” What if 3dfx had gotten the SEGA Dreamcast contract? Would both companies have been better off? What if 3dfx had continu

>> This tale brings up many “what ifs.” What if 3dfx had gotten the SEGA Dreamcast contract? Would both companies have been better off? What if 3dfx had continued simply doing chips and not gotten into the board business? Would 3dfx then have brought its products to market more quickly? What if Atari had continued with its rasterizer chip from 1983s I,Robot? They also had their "mathbox" for geometry transformations since the late 1970's. They were well equipped technically to enter the broader 3D graphics market in some way but that never happened.