At 21:53 09/16/2005 -0700, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
>Tracy R Reed wrote:
>> Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
>> 
>>>Well, the you have pretty much limited yourself to ATI, ATI, and, well,
>>>ATI.
>> 
>> 
>> I did indeed go out and buy an ATI video card. Seems like ATI and NVidia
>> are the only people making graphics chipsets for any reasonable price now.
>
>You forgot the #1 player:
>
>Intel
>
>That's why nobody else makes graphics chips.  Since Intel stuffs a 
>graphics chip on almost all motherboards, unless you rock at 3D you have 
>no market.

S3 still makes video chips. They are prevelant in low end stuff like the
all-in-one motherboards, but they are also putting their IP into other
chipmakers stuff, notably Via and miniITX motherboards.

Gus


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