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Hardware

15 Sep
Hardware
3Dfx Sales Down

The hardware race keeps getting louder. 3Dfx Interactive, Inc said sales of its products in the third quarter of the calendar year have been lower than anticipated due to a greater than expected seasonal slowdown in the retail channel. 3Dfx Interactive, develops high performance, cost-effective 3D media processors, software and related technology that are designed to enable a highly immersive, interactive and realistic 3D experience across interactive electronic entertainment systems It may not be the biggest story of the month, but 3Dfx Sales Down is exactly the sort of thing PC players are tracking right now.

14 Sep
Hardware
STB Velocity 4400 Drivers

The hardware race keeps getting louder. STB released new drivers for their Velocity 4400 graphics card.

10 Sep
Hardware
3Dfx Cup Competition

NASCAR Silicon Motor Speedway, the country's hottest interactive race driving center, announces the 3Dfx Cup, a four-state, four-city, no-holds-barred, first-ever virtual.

09 Sep
Hardware
Matrox in Compaq Deskpro PCs

Matrox Graphics said the Matrox Millennium G200 (8MB and 16MB), Matrox Millennium G200 SD (8MB and 16MB) and Matrox MGA-G100 (4MB) graphics accelerators from Matrox's MGA-G200.

09 Sep
Hardware
3Dfx Expands Staff

3Dfx Interactive announced a reorganization of the company with the expansion of the executive staff to focus on the company's three core business strategies: technology, brand.

08 Sep
Hardware
3Dfx Optimizing Drivers for AMD-K6-2 with 3DNow!

3Dfx Interactive and AMD announced they will join efforts in optimizing 3Dfx's Voodoo2 and Voodoo Banshee drivers for the AMD-K6-2 with 3DNow! complete support of the Voodoo2.

08 Sep
Hardware
Diablo II with 3Dfx Support

As we had mentioned a back on Sunday, Blizzard Entertainmentand 3Dfx Interactive said Diablo II, sequel to Blizzard's top selling roll-playing game of 1997, will include native.

08 Sep
Hardware
RipTide to support Audio/Modem Riser

Rockwell Semiconductor Systems said the company's RipTide audio/modem chipset is the first solution to fully support the Audio/Modem Riser (AMR) and the Mobile Daughter Card.

03 Sep
Hardware
RIVA TNT ranked by Mercury Research

The hardware race keeps getting louder. NVIDIA Corporation said the RIVA TNT ranked first on the 3D and 2D benchmark tests conducted by Mercury Research Inc. of Scottsdale, Ariz., an industry leading research and consulting firm.