3dfx was a leading manufacturer of graphics cards in the 1990s. The company was known for its Voodoo cards and the last of them Voodoo 5, had two or four graphics processors.
3dfx made 3D games take off
3dfx’s success diminished interest in 3D games, but in the second half of the 1990s, products emerged that made 3dfx no longer – despite high-performance cards – offer performance gains that were commensurate with the price.
Nvidia dropped 3dfx
It quickly went back with 3dfx in the late 1990s and the company was eventually acquired by Nvidia who sucked the company for intellectual property before they shut it down.
Now 3dfx’s “official” Twitter account has appeared. It promises that the company is back after 20 years and that it will launch new graphics cards at the end of this year.
https://twitter.com/3dfxofficial/status/1422814559870455809?s=20
Unbelief and cautious excitement
The Twitter message that promised that “3dfx Interactive will return 20 years later”, was first met with a mixture of disbelief and cautious enthusiasm.
But a little googling shows that this is unfortunately sprayed from end to end – and it’s sad because we so want 3dfx to come back with updated 3D accelerators – the whole half of the world is desperate for new GPUs.
But what if it was true?
But what if this was true, what if a bunch of smart engineers had joined forces and built a new 3dfx Interactive? To put it in perspective for those who were conceived after father once in the 90s had gamed himself a bloody evening and became warm both in the heart and surrounding organs when his blurred eyes drilled into mother, it was 3dfx the cards that first made possible the game worlds we take for granted today. Respect.
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