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    3dfx Interactive, Inc. was an American computer hardware company headquartered in San Jose, California, founded in 1994, that specialized in the manufacturing...
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  • Glide (API) (redirect from 3DFX Glide)
    developed by 3dfx Interactive for their Voodoo Graphics 3D accelerator cards. It started as a proprietary API, and was later open sourced by 3dfx. It was dedicated...
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    Voodoo3 (category 3dfx Interactive)
    series of computer gaming video cards manufactured and designed by 3dfx Interactive. It was the successor to the company's high-end Voodoo2 line and was...
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    Voodoo 5 (redirect from 3dfx VSA-100)
    the last and most powerful graphics card line that was released by 3dfx Interactive. All members of the family were based upon the VSA-100 graphics processor...
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  • otherwise provided their own APIs. The original implementation came from 3dfx Interactive, and was designed around supporting Quake. Other companies implementing...
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    series of graphics processors. Struggling against competition from 3dfx Interactive, ATI and Nvidia, it merged with hardware manufacturer Diamond Multimedia...
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    Scan-Line Interleave (category 3dfx Interactive)
    Scan-Line Interleave (SLI) is a multi-GPU method developed by 3DFX for linking two (or more) video cards or chips together to produce a single output....
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  • better price–performance ratio than existing products like those from 3dfx Interactive. Rapid changes in that market, notably with the introduction of OpenGL...
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    Voodoo2 (category 3dfx Interactive)
    of three specialized 3D graphics chips on a single chipset setup, made by 3dfx. It was released in February 1998 as a replacement for the original Voodoo...
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  • Graphics, a series of graphics-acceleration cards manufactured by 3dfx Interactive Voodoo, a 3D match moving software program Voodoo (company), a video...
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    STB Systems (category 3dfx Interactive)
    multimedia computer products. In 1999, the company was acquired by 3dfx Interactive. STB Systems, Inc., was founded in Richardson, Texas, in 1981 by Don...
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  • FXT1 (category 3dfx Interactive)
    compression scheme for 3D graphics, invented by the hardware vendor 3dfx Interactive and offered as an open source rival standard to S3TC in September 1999...
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    the original on September 20, 2015. Retrieved October 7, 2020. In re 3dfx Interactive, Inc., 585 F. App'x 626 (9th Cir. 2014). "Nvidia's new graphics cards...
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  • (a subset of DirectX) Glide a defunct 3D graphics API developed by 3dfx Interactive. Mantle developed by AMD. Metal developed by Apple. OpenGL and the...
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  • Corporation ZiiLABS Trident Microsystems Tseng Labs – (acquired by ATI) XGI 3dfx Interactive (acquired by Nvidia) List of keyboard manufacturers: A4Tech Alps Amkette...
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  • Contents:  Top 0–9 A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Y Z 3dfx Interactive (acquired by Nvidia in 2002) Achronix Actions Semiconductor Adapteva...
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    company funding Ardent at the time, and likely brought the algorithm to 3dfx Interactive circa 1994. Jim Blinn demonstrated a simple approximation of the inverse...
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  • Vancouver Design Center Genoa Systems – bankrupt GigaPixel – acquired by 3dfx Interactive Headland Technology – division of LSI Logic's Standard Products Group...
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    and assembly of its products. With the decline and eventual bankruptcy of 3dfx in 2000, ATI and its chief rival Nvidia emerged as the two dominant players...
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    Device Video card Cirrus Logic CL-GD5430 ISA Cirrus Logic CL-GD5446 PCI 3dfx Interactive Voodoo Banshee / Voodoo3 Sound card Sound Blaster 16 (ISA, no Plug...
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    but by this time the series was lagging behind emerging vendors like 3dfx Interactive. Matrox made several attempts to increase its share of the market for...
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  • Archived from the original on November 11, 2018. Retrieved February 3, 2019. "3dfx Announces Three Major Initiatives To Protect Creditors and Maximize Shareholder...
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  • help from upstart company Piggyback Interactive. The 15-person team at Toka created the game using the 3dfx Interactive Glide API for PC hardware in the...
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    from fellow video game hardware manufacturers Nintendo, Sega, and 3dfx Interactive, while Connectix was backed by fellow software firms and trade associations...
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    there were many manufacturers of graphics accelerators, including: 3dfx Interactive; ATI; Hercules; Trident; Nvidia; Radius; S3 Graphics; SiS and Silicon...
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    ATI hired many of the remaining employees for a new Orlando office. 3dfx Interactive had sued Real3D on a patent basis, and Intel's purchase moved the lawsuits...
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    games during RIVA 128's lifetime used 3Dfx's proprietary Glide API. Legally, only 3Dfx cards could use 3Dfx's Glide API. Like the competing ATI Rage...
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    The TNT was designed as a follow-up to the RIVA 128 and a response to 3Dfx's introduction of the Voodoo2. It added a second pixel pipeline, practically...
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    graphics processing took a major leap forward in the mid-1990s with 3dfx Interactive's introduction of the Voodoo series, one of the earliest consumer-facing...
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  • first games optimized for video cards with a 3dfx chipset using the Glide API. Only video cards with the 3dfx Voodoo 1 chipset were supported upon the game's...
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