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Diamond Multimedia is an American company that specializes in many forms of multimedia technology. They have produced graphics cards , motherboards , modems , sound cards and MP3 players ; however, the company began with the production of the TrackStar, an add-on card for IBM PC compatibles which emulates Apple II computers.
S3 Graphics, Ltd. was an American computer graphics company. The company sold the Trio, ViRGE, Savage, and Chrome series of graphics processors. Struggling against competition from 3dfx Interactive, ATI and Nvidia, it merged with hardware manufacturer Diamond Multimedia in 1999.
Diamond Multimedia, founder and CEO emeritus Chong Moon Lee ( Korean : 이종문 , born 1928) is an American entrepreneur and philanthropist. He founded Diamond Multimedia in 1982; after stepping down from Diamond, he founded AmBex Venture Partners in 1996.
Diamond no longer provides support for the Rio, and the last version of Microsoft Windows to work with Diamond's Rio software was Windows 98. Independently produced freeware programs such as "Dreaming of Brazil" or "RIOsitude" can still be used to upload audio files to the player.
The Recording Industry Association of America (RIAA) filed a lawsuit in late 1998 against Diamond Multimedia for its Rio players, [39] [82] alleging that the device encouraged copying music illegally. But Diamond won a legal victory on the shoulders of the Sony Corp. v. Universal City Studios case and DAPs were legally ruled as electronic ...
Acquired by Diamond Multimedia Supra Corporation was best known as a manufacturer of modems for personal computers, but also produced a range of hardware for the Amiga and Atari ST , including hard drives , SCSI controllers, memory boards, and processor accelerators.
The end products (i.e. the graphics card) differentiate substantially by the provided graphics device drivers and through the available professional support for the software. The product line is split into two categories: "W" workstation series focusing on workstation and primarily focusing on graphics and display, and "S" server series focused ...
Rio was a line of digital audio players and related audio products. Its first release, the Rio PMP300 digital music player (also known colloquially as simply the "Diamond Rio"), released by Diamond Multimedia in 1998, was one of the earliest notable and commercially successful devices in its category. [1]