» Video cards and Display cards reviews over the years. «
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This will be moved to a far, far larger database as some as I have the time to spare!
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| 3Dfx Interactive | History! |
| Albatron | Never tried them |
| ATI Technologies | One of the few still active. Radeon 9700 sounds tasty |
| Cirrus Logic | Only embedded logics now. |
| Creative Labs | x |
| Diamond Multimedia | Used to bounce you to new owners Sonic Blue Inc The [www.diamondmm.com] link is now a forbidden page |
| Matrox Electronic Systems | Another Canadian that just keeps on going  |
| Number Nine | Another casualty for the history books |
| nVidia | Looking like December for the GeForcer 5's |
| [ www.oaktech.com] OAK Technology | Another old veteran who were very good in their day.
"Founded in 1987, Oak Technology, Inc. is a now a leading provider of solutions for the storage, manipulation and distribution of digital content and are committed to driving the emerging world of connected consumer appliances. Their fully integrated products and technologies target three key markets:
Marketing aside, the companies optical storage unit was acquired by [ Sunplus Technology ] in March of 2003. Apparently the purchase enabled the integrated chip for Sunplus's upcoming DVD players. Later that year, they themselves appear to be been acquired by Zoran |
| Leadtek | x |
| Rendition Inc | Bounces you to new owners Micron and it's driver page |
| S3 Incorporated | Used to bounce you to Sonic Blue Inc. Now owned by 'S3 Systems'. I recently (2005) heard news of new S3 chipsets. Must see who owns the company and patents now… |
| Sapphire | Check out their noiseless patented fanless heatpump design |
| STB | Gone, like so many others |
| Transcend | Transcend manufactures, sells, and distributes over 2,000 types of memory modules, video cards and motherboards |
| Trident Microsystems | Like the the other survivors from back in the day, they are making controller chips now, typically for HDTV etc. |
| Tseng Labs | Another old veteran buried |
| Tu Chiang Technology | Apparently, according to this DigiTimes, SiS is to spin off its graphics chip division (multimedia product division) as a new subsidiary (around June 2003). |
