stery966

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   by stery966 2y ago

   Oh, and we invented unified memory architecture when we designed a PC chipset that included onboard 2d graphics and VGA. It was a cool product, but maybe ahead of its time. It was also hard to sell that not being Intel. The architect of
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   by stery966 2y ago

   Weitek dominated PC 2D graphics accelerator performance for a while in the 90s, but they also suffered from 3dfx's problem of poor VGA compatibility. So they hired me to help design a new VGA core from scratch. Apparently, we did tha
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   by stery966 2y ago

   I remember in the interview mentioning they should also license Weitek's VGA core, but they said VGA was dying and they didn't want to dedicate silicon area to it. Besides they had an external chip to do it "for now" -
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   by stery966 2y ago

   They already had what they needed from me :). I do think it's cool that every pixel they displayed for approximately the next decade went through my display pipeline
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   by stery966 2y ago

   As a designer of Weitek's VGA core, this is a very interesting read. I had no idea how valuable the core was to nVidia. As Weitek was going under, I also remember interviewing with 3dfx and thinking how arrogant they were. I'm