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Famous graphics Chips: S3 ViRGE

In the mid-1990s, two major developments were taking place. One was the explosion of 3D graphics chip companies, and the other was the emergence of virtual reality from the labs to industry.  In 1990, twenty companies were making or had declared they would make a 3D graphics chip. By 1996, the number of suppliers exploded to 70. And by 2000, ...

Robert Dow

In the mid-1990s, two major developments were taking place. One was the explosion of 3D graphics chip companies, and the other was the emergence of virtual reality from the labs to industry.  In 1990, twenty companies were making or had declared they would make a 3D graphics chip. By 1996, the number of suppliers exploded to 70. And by 2000, the number of suppliers had dropped to 12 due to the unforeseen complexity of developing such a chip and the impact of the collapse of the Internet bubble. The rise and fall of 3D graphics chip suppliers   Around 1990,
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