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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. yeah... by Arminius · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I got a Geforce4 card. Kinda nice but my old Radeon seems to work a little better in FreeBSD 5.0 dp1.

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