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Established in 1987, Trident gained a reputation for selling inexpensive (for the time) but slow SVGA components. Many OEMs built add-in-boards using Trident VGA chipsets. As the PC graphics market shifted from simple framebuffer displays (basic VGA color monitor and later multi-resolution SVGA output) to more advanced 2D hardware acceleration such a BitBLT engine and color-space conversion ...
S3's first 3D accelerator chips, the ViRGE series, controlled half of the market early on but could not compete against the high end 3D accelerators from ATI, Nvidia, and 3Dfx. [4] In some cases, the chips performed worse than software-based solutions without an accelerator. [5] As S3 lost market share, their offerings competed in the mid-range ...
The S3 ViRGE (Video and Rendering Graphics Engine [1]) graphics chipset was one of the first 2D/3D accelerators designed for the mass market. Introduced in 1996 by then graphics powerhouse S3, Inc. , the ViRGE was S3's first foray into 3D-graphics.
32-bit GUI accelerator with basic DOS support; Limited VESA VBE support; Support for 15 bpp (bits per pixel), 16 bpp and 24 bpp colour modes added; Video memory: 1 or 2 MiB DRAM or VRAM; Memory interface: 64-bit; Port: ISA, EISA, VLB, PCI, MCA; Integrated VGA core; 100% compatible with IBM 8514/A; The Mach 32 chip was used on the following ATI ...
Trident Microsystems: United States: 1987: 2003: Sold its graphics chip assets to XGI in 2003: Following exit entered bankruptcy in 2012 Tseng Labs: United States: 1983: 1998: Sold its graphics chip assets to ATI Technologies in 1997: United Microelectronics Corporation: Taiwan: 1980: Unknown: Exited the graphics chip industry
The Mystique was a 64-bit 2D GUI and video accelerator (MGA1064SG) with 3D acceleration support. Mystique has " Matrox Simple Interface " (MSI) rendering API . It was one of many early products by add-in graphics board vendors that attempted to achieve good combined 2D & 3D performance for consumer-level personal computers.
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The S3 Trio range were popular video cards for personal computers and were S3's first fully integrated graphics accelerators. As the name implies, three previously separate components were now included in the same ASIC: the graphics core, RAMDAC and clock generator. The increased integration allowed a graphics card to be simpler than before and ...