(01-16-2023, 12:52 AM)vishnu Wrote: Incredibly expensive for nearly 23 year old cards! If their technology was so great it really makes you wonder why 3dfx's creditors decided to tank them... đ
3DFX's shareholders thought that it would be a good idea to purchase a board manufacturing company and start to manufacture their own cards. This action ended up by putting them into direct competition with their board partners (Creative, Diamond, Orchid, etc...), who in turn then started to drift way and preferably manufacture cards for their direct competition, namely NVidia!
That single poor business decision pretty much killed them!!!
Two of their founding members worked at SGI before starting the company!!!!