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3dfxThe Risk It Wrote Down, Then Took

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3dfx's own merger filing said it would likely lose customers who competed with STB, yet the board signed anyway.

How the Voodoo card's maker went from GLQuake to selling its name and its patents to Nvidia.

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3dfx Interactive, 1994 to 2000: the Voodoo Graphics card, Glide and GLQuake, the Voodoo2 SLI era, the STB acquisition and the decision to make its own boards, the Voodoo3 and Voodoo5, and why it ended in Nvidia's purchase of its assets, 1994
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1 Photo Three-isa-audio-cards (cropped) Media Vision Pro Audio.jpg Pratyeka CC BY-SA 4.0
2 Photo SGI-onyx.jpg Retro-Computing Society of Rhode Island CC BY-SA 4.0
3 Photo Stbriva128.jpg unknown author CC BY-SA 3.0
4 Photo Diamond Viper V770 Ultra Rev C.jpg Gona.eu CC BY-SA 3.0
5 Photo KL Diamond Monster3D Voodoo 1.jpg Konstantin Lanzet GNU FDL 1.2
6 Photo 3dfxvoodoo1diamond.jpg User:Bloodshedder CC BY-SA 2.5
7 Photo Voodoo graphics card.jpg Hades2k CC BY-SA 2.0
8 Photo DiamondViperV770.JPG Swaaye at English Wikipedia CC BY-SA 3.0
9 Photo Orchid Righteous 3D (back).png Trio3D CC BY-SA 3.0
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