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    S3 Graphics, Ltd. (commonly referred to as S3) was an American computer graphics company. The company sold the Trio, ViRGE, Savage, and Chrome series of...
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    The S3 Trio range were popular video cards for personal computers and were S3's first fully integrated graphics accelerators. As the name implies, three...
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  • algorithms originally developed by Iourcha et al. of S3 Graphics, Ltd. for use in their Savage 3D computer graphics accelerator. The method of compression is strikingly...
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  • market. Introduced in 1996 by then graphics powerhouse S3, Inc., the ViRGE was S3's first foray into 3D-graphics. The S3/Virge was the successor to the successful...
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    Savage was a product-line of PC graphics chipsets designed by S3. At the 1998 E3 Expo S3 introduced the first Savage product, Savage3D. Compared to its...
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  • Number Nine Visual Technology (category Graphics hardware companies)
    "letter-of-intent" for S3 Inc. (later S3 Graphics Co.) to buy substantially all assets and intellectual property of Number Nine. By mid 2000, S3 had completed...
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    Windows Graphics accelerator chip for personal computers. A three-time start-up veteran, he co-founded Mostron, Chips and Technologies, and S3 Graphics. Banatao...
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  • S3 Graphics Chrome 400 is a computer graphics chip made by VIA. It was the successor of S3 Chrome S20 series. VIA planned the production of two new graphics...
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    ATI: Graphics Solution Plus, Wonder series, Mach series S3 Graphics: S3 911, 911A, 924, 801, 805, 805i, 928, 805p, 928p, S3 Vision series, S3 Trio series...
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  • National Vegetation Classification system S3 Graphics, a computer-hardware company S3 Group, an Irish software company S3 Texture Compression, a group of lossy...
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  • S3 Graphics' Chrome series of graphics accelerators arrived in 2004 with the DeltaChrome line of chips. They were supplied as discrete, mobile, or integrated...
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    VGA. Super VGA enabled graphics display resolutions up to 800×600 pixels, a 36% increase. In 1991, S3 Graphics introduced the S3 86C911, which its designers...
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    free and open-source graphics device driver is a software stack which controls computer-graphics hardware and supports graphics-rendering application...
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  • acceleration") for not only MPEG-2 but also MPEG-4 ASP video on VIA Unichrome (S3 Graphics Chrome Series) hardware. XvMC was the first UNIX equivalent of the Microsoft...
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    acquired the ailing S3 Graphics business in 2001. While the S3 Savage chipset was not fast enough to survive as a discrete graphics product, its low manufacturing...
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    Diamond Multimedia (category Graphics hardware companies)
    with S3, Incorporated in 1999 after a long-time cooperative business arrangement, when S3 decided to expand their business from producing graphics chipsets...
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  • Matrox Moore Threads Nvidia Oak Technology(Graphics Business Unit) Qualcomm S3 Graphics Via (S3 Graphics division) Vivante Corporation ZiiLABS Trident...
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  • Chrome S20 series (category Graphics cards)
    Chrome 20 Series is a graphics accelerator by S3 Graphics, the successor of GammaChrome S18. The Chrome 20 series was introduced on March 11, 2005, with...
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  • degree from IIT Kharagpur, Kharagpur, West Bengal. Raja Koduri joined S3 Graphics in 1996. He became the director of advanced technology development at...
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  • HTC files an ITC complaint against Apple over 5 patents. 2010, May 28: S3 Graphics files an ITC complaint against Apple over 4 patents used in the iPhone...
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    2011, it was announced that HTC would buy VIA Technologies' stake in S3 Graphics. On 6 August 2011, HTC acquired Dashwire for $18.5M. In August 2011,...
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  • kernel already had an API called fbdev, used to manage the framebuffer of a graphics adapter, but it couldn't be used to handle the needs of modern 3D-accelerated...
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    Voodoo3 (category Graphics cards)
    had appealed to OEM system builders for years, with boards such as the S3 Graphics ViRGE VX-based STB Velocity 3D and Nvidia RIVA 128-based Velocity 128...
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  • Nvidia's NV30 series supported both FP16 and FP32; other vendors such as S3 Graphics and XGI supported a mixture of formats up to FP24. The implementations...
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  • 200 MB hard drive, the systems were fitted with a video adapter from S3 Graphics and were bundled with 14-inch colour monitors. The rPC/40 was priced...
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    Tseng Labs (category Graphics hardware companies)
    the graphics card shakeout of the mid-1990s, losing market share to S3 Graphics and ATI Technologies. Tseng was especially late to integrate a RAMDAC...
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  • Technology S3 – merged with Diamond Multimedia, then sold off its core graphics division to VIA Technologies, later sold off to HTC Silicon Graphics Incorporated...
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    these messages in VGA mode. S3 Graphics. "VC963-3D (S3 ViRGE/DX) User Manual". Archived from the original on 13 April 2020. The S3 ViRGE supports 132×43 and...
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  • and later, Intel's GMA 950 and later integrated graphics, and a handful of VIA chipsets and S3 Graphics discrete chips are supported. Although originally...
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  • for which the driver implements VDPAU are listed in Nvidia PureVideo. S3 Graphics added VDPAU to the Linux drivers of their Chrome 400 video cards. As...
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