3dfxThe Risk It Wrote Down, Then Took
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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| 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 |
| 10 | Photo | assets/supplied/scott-sellers.jpeg | supplied by the user | License unknown |
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