Not a name I've heard in years... but from what I remember when they had a segment of the desktop market were not free software friendly. In fact there was no 3d acceleration what-so-ever. This was probably around 2006. I actually had a system with this and it worked great besides the 3d. Back then 3d wasn't so critical though and only became an issue in the later years (it remained a useful system until not that long ago).

In later years they said they'd release a driver (binary presumably) for whatever next-generation stuff they were working on, but backed out as far as I can recall. Which was really odd considering that GNU/Linux had gained a foothold on the market in which they were primarily targeting (if my recollection is correct).

I'm not sure what the story is today, but they don't seem to exist in the desktop arena. However I suspect they might still be around in the embedded market or similar. Which we all know is full of proprietary software dependent graphics and wifi components.

* Unless I'm thinking of a totally different company, but I think I'm recalling the right company.

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