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3DFX re-enters the GPU market, shows off an

Even if it wasn't an April fool's "joke", whenever you see one of these long-dead companies "coming back", you realise that all it means is somebody has bought the brand name. For all intents and purposes it's a completely new company with no IP.

And in this market, it's basically impossible to be a genuinely new entrant, isn't it. It's a fantastic example of how the patent system can be used to create and sustain a duopoloy/monopoly/closed market. You've obviously got AMD/nV/Intel/ImgTec/Apple... but that's about it, isn't it? And of those only the first 2 are capable of making truly high-end products.
 
I recall a magazine I think it was called Special Reserve (around 1998) and advertised pc parts and also had random gaming news in it. One April they showed a game called the Super Fandango cousins coming to PlayStation. It was Mario64 with different coloured hats and edited a bit, always recall my friend saying he couldn't wait to get it.
 
FoxEye said:
Even if it wasn't an April fool's "joke", whenever you see one of these long-dead companies "coming back", you realise that all it means is somebody has bought the brand name. For all intents and purposes it's a completely new company with no IP.

And in this market, it's basically impossible to be a genuinely new entrant, isn't it. It's a fantastic example of how the patent system can be used to create and sustain a duopoloy/monopoly/closed market. You've obviously got AMD/nV/Intel/ImgTec/Apple... but that's about it, isn't it? And of those only the first 2 are capable of making truly high-end products.
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Not sure Apple count. As far as I am aware they went back and still licence there GPU off ImgTech. We also have ARM and Qualcomm who make GPU's that sell into the millions. I am sure if we dig into it we can find some more but the others will be no name companies who effectively don't have a market share.
 
hyperseven said:
You do know what day that was posted on and if I recall NVidia bought all their IP :confused:
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ya one of the reason I didnt buy a nividia product again for years because they bought the company then killed the company ie didnt support anything after that ... (things look dirty when they are blown up :)
 
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