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The Age of Nvidia

Posted by michael on from the i-met-a-traveller-from-an-antique-land dept.

EyesWideOpen writes "There is an excellent (and lengthy) two part article (part 1, part 2) at Salon detailing the rise, and... rise, of Nvidia and how the company came to rest atop the 3-D graphics chip industry with a little help from Microsoft. The article discusses how Nvidia was able to persevere in the multi-billion dollar industry while other graphics chip companies, such as 3Dfx which was bought by Nvidia, did not fare as well."

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  1. Re:in my humble opinion by PhilJackson · · Score: 2, Funny

    I bloody well care about it! When I went through an Urban Terror (mod for Q3) faze I had to use them for GL. They are the buggiest piece of crap ever written. They would play havoc with my console and mouse cursor in X. If I select text in Konq they would crash X completely meaning a reboot (unless I ssh'd in and killed it.) NVidia card are also shite for video just ask the MPlayer hackers (you won't be hard pushed to get an oppinion!)

  2. The Age of Nvidia by Rick+the+Red · · Score: 2, Funny

    Is this from Exile? I haven't played that one yet.

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  3. Re:Why Nvidia's on top by buck_wild · · Score: 2, Funny

    I can hear it already:

    What? Microsoft help nVidia?
    Microsoft bad! Thag hate Microsoft! Thag hate nVidia! Drivers not opensource? Thag hate drivers!

    But I digress.

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