The Age of Nvidia

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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UHhhhh? ATI?

[theDigitizer]

Not to spoil the party but, the ATI Radeons 8500 and 7500 are easily better cards all-around, and better performing speed-wise. Plus they come from one company, rather than shooting out their hardware to 20 different companies like NVidia. Which is a better strategy IMHO, for driver control and development. I know so many friends of mine who have trouble with NVidia drivers, etc.

I also much applaud the fact they've folded DVI and Dual monitor capability into the cards already, and the All in Wonder 8500 includes Firewire. All around, excellent . That's my piece, you may now...

Flame away!