S3 Tries to Get Back Into PC Graphics

mikemuch writes "ExtremeTech has a review of S3's attempt to get some traction in the lower-end graphics card market, the Chrome S27. Though its specs look great--256MB memory, 700MHz core clock rate, 1.4GHz memory clock, and 22.4 GB/sec memory throughput, it still manages to underperform similarly priced video cards from the red and green graphics companies."

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Re:Why is this modded insightful?

[Queer Boy]

With a company that has so little marketshare to begin with, they go with the largest share of the pie first, and that is the Windows market.

There's no pie for S3 in the Windows world. Period. Even if ATI and Nvidia were not offering low-end versions of their products, Intel has on-board graphics that do the job. Their best bet would have been to produce Linux drivers first and focus on them to create a product for a cost-conscious consumer and market themselves that way.