From: Gregory Alan Bolcer (gbolcer@endtech.com)
Date: Sat Dec 23 2000 - 10:47:03 PST
Impressive list of ex-graphics companies.
> http://www.wired.com/news/technology/0,1282,40758,00.html
The settlement deal and selling of assets to nvidia
are amazing coup. I'd say buy NVDA except they
were up over $7/share on the news already.
Greg
>
> 3Dfx Fall Good Voodoo for NVidia
> by Andy Patrizio
>
> 2:00 a.m. Dec. 20, 2000 PST
>
>
>
>
> Having gone from hero to zero in less than
> four years, 3Dfx will join Diamond
> Multimedia and S3 in the graphics industry
> bone yard.
>
> After failing to find enough financing to
> keep it afloat, the company that propelled
> the 3-D gaming revolution into the
> stratosphere in 1996 with its radical chipset
> and graphics library has gone bust.
> 3Dfx's core assets and
> technology were sold
> off to nVidia, one of its
> major rivals in the 3-D
> graphics market, for
> $70 million cash and
> one million nVidia
> shares. NVidia also
> loaned 3Dfx $15 million
> to keep it solvent, and
> the two companies
> have settled their
> patent-infringement
> lawsuits. Both
> companies had filed
> suits against each
> other.
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