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Nvidia buys 3DFX
NVIDIA HAS FINALLY completed all the outstanding matters relating to its acquisition of graphics company 3DFX.
No, this isn't Back to the Future - just this week a federal bankruptcy court threw out the last remaining lawsuit over Graphzilla's monumental acquisition from 2001.
After picking up the firm for a bargainous $112m, there were plenty of unhappy parties - including creditors of the firm who believed they didn't get a big enough slice of the pie. They brought a lawsuit against Nvidia claiming it had underpaid fraudulently to avoid paying the debts.
A court threw out those claims and said that Nvidia had acted properly - although there is still the possibility that there will be an appeal.
"A trial was necessary to fully demonstrate that we conducted ourselves appropriately in the acquisition and we are very pleased with the Decision from the Court," said David Shannon, Nvidia's senior vice president and general counsel. No doubt he was very pleased with the outcome - any fule kno that its the learned fiends that do the best out of any lawsuit, regardless of who wins. µ
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nVidia buys only assets from 3Dfx, not whole company. nVidia simply don't paid.
They owe 6 millions stocks (after spinoffs)
Yes, this was the first time when I said that I HATE NVIDIA.

I bought Voodoo for about 12000,-CZK and after a month, NVIDIA bought 3Dfx. Holly bastards! As I loved 3Dfx, now I love ATI.

OK, shitty comment, but I HATE NVIDIA!
I remember the sad day when Nvidia bought 3Dfx. 

They destroyed the best 3d cards company ever. 

It took Nvidia 10 years to utilize poorly the SLI technology 3Dfx was using with their products!!!!! 

I had 2 Vodoo2 in SLI back then, and UT 99 was looking fantastic (in Glide). After that I replace them with a V5500 and Nvidia shutdown the lot. :(

Bring back Glide!!!!!
Nvidia out-thunk you stock buying weasels! Long live Nvidia, smart business to the end!
...oh, how I cherished my Voodoo 5500...

<tears up just a bit>

...sniff.
Robert Varga lol, 3Dfx did have its glory days.. actually I used to prefer Matrox to Nvidia before Nvidia catched up on image quality.. that must have been Gf3 or 4 not sure..

Either way, now ive only used Nvidia cards for a long time.. there is nothing bad with this company.. except perhaps their naming policy latley wich leaves something to be desired, but i do infact disslike the Ati naming policy more =)


Hehe - i got 2x Voodoo2 and one Voodoo3 in the box on my PC case and i am not gonna throw them away :D

3dfx was good company but i think i and many others are just crying for old times when it was alive but without nvidia, ati and other chipmakers we would not have good competition on video card market which brings us quite such good prices as we have now :P

PS.: i loved NFS witch 3dfx patch :D
I can't help but feel that the people at Nvidia simply said, "That's nice" when they opened their post to that this morning.
Voodoo's were nice, when they were out, and it was the very clever API which meant they could look so good and not need the same graphical horsepower as it's rivals at the time. Time moves on though.
Still alive and kicking in my Windows Home Server!!

Try the minigls
"They destroyed the best 3d cards company ever."

the best!? you think if they're the best they'll go down just like that? you must be crazy.

go game with you vodoos. my gf2mx will pawn em butts like pancake.

"go game with you vodoos. my gf2mx will pawn em butts like pancake"

Are you retarded?

Voodoo + Glide = unbeatable.

Oh the days of playing Unreal and UT at 60fps with AA, while my competition struggled with their Gf2 20fps POS.
The days of glide and playing UT99 are are just a memory for most of us now. Time to move on. Why be pissed off at other companies for 3Dfx failures on the business front.
"Are you retarded? 

Voodoo + Glide = unbeatable.
"

yeah so unbeatable indeed. ..lol are you nuts? if that combo were unbeatable why are they dead?


i'd rather play with my gf2mx.. fraction of a cost than your vodoo junks.


Superior technologies get beaten by inferior competition *all the time*.

You can thank the legal and marketing teams in huge mega-corporations for that.

Just look at Creative vs Aureal. Aureal had the superior product by a country mile. Creative locked them up in a legal dispute for years (which to my knowledge, Creative did not win).

But they didn't need to win. They had more money than Aureal, and Aureal went bankrupt paying the legal costs to fight Creative.

Then Creative bought them out, and buried all their technology. And to this day, Creative still produce second-rate sound cards, which only sell thanks to the strength of their brand name.
They had their 15 mins and it was a fun time but just couldnt come up with the goods when it mattered. If they were still around we may still be gaming with 16 bit colour. Ok I jest, they might have gone to 24bit by now.

No great loss. Matrox leaving the gaming scene was a bigger loss.
I have owned 3dfx, Ati and Nvidia cards. I buy whatever is the best deal around at the moment. Nvidia has produced the best card for the money most of the time. I say Keep it up! My gaming pleasure is increasing for each new generation!
Simple : their heads grew too large. Check out the history of the company. 3Dfx did great up until the Voodoo 3. Then they pissed everybody off by forbidding anyone else to make cards while they tried to create their own foundery.
Thus, 3Dfx found out the hard way that cutting your sales while you build your production capacity is not good. That quandary condemned the Voodoo 4 to the state of vaporware, and allowed Nvidia to gobble up the market with the TNT2.
When 3Dfx finally got back with the Voodoo 5, their finances were in such a state that they could not compete against Nvidia any more, and they lost the war.
Nvidia stomped on the remains with the GeForce, and then picked up the pieces it wanted for chump change.
All this does not detract from the fact that not only 3Dfx was the first company to successfully market a gaming-oriented add-on board, it was by far the only company to have ever done SLI properly - at least up to now.
I have always thought that the only reason Nvidia bought up 3Dfx was to get their hands on that technology, which they have mangled in a horrible way.
Man I see alot of the whinning around here, way to go Nvidia great for constantly moving forward unlike others but they will learn one day as well and you hell sayers one must be in hell. 
Before telling someone to go there. That just means your the wieny half/