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    8 months ago

    First gen chips are rarely blockbusters

    True, yet Nvidia was a nobody that arrived out of nowhere with the Riva graphics cards, and beat everybody else thoroughly. ATi, S3, 3Dfx, Matrox etc.

    But you are right, these things usually take time, and for instance Microsoft was prepared to spend 10 years without making money on Xbox, because they saw it had potential in the long run.

    I’m surprised Intel consider themselves so hard pressed, they are already thinking of giving up.

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      8 months ago

      True, yet Nvidia was a nobody that arrived out of nowhere with the Riva graphics cards, and beat everybody else thoroughly. ATi, S3, 3Dfx, Matrox etc.

      Actually, they didn’t.

      This was their first: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/NV1

      Complete failure, overpriced, undercapable, was one of the worst cards on the market at the time, and used quadratics instead of triangles.

      NV2 was supposed to power the dreamcast, and kept the quads, but was cancelled.

      But the third one stayed up! https://youtu.be/w82CqjaDKmA?t=23