nVidia neemt 100 3dfx engineers over

The Register vertelt dat nVidia aan 100 engineers van 3dfx werk zal geven. Wat het bedrijf precies met de nieuwe technologiën (Gigapixel Tile Based Rendering System, T-Buffer e.d.) zal doen is nog onduidelijk. nVidia CEO Huang bevestigde wel dat hij zo snel mogelijk wil evalueren wat ervan gebruikt kan worden voor aankomende producten:

Nvidia yesterday said it wants to give a hundred of 3dfx's top engineers jobs - part of the company's programme to pick the flesh from the technological bones of the moribund graphics chip maker.

Speaking at an analyst conference yesterday, Nvidia CEO CEO Jen-Hsun Huang didn't go into detail about how his company will leverage intellectual property acquired from 3dfx. Too much, of course, depends on whether 3dfx shareholders will permit the sale of the company's technological and trademark assets to Nvidia for $70 million plus one million shares.

"We're quite excited about the new products in the pipeline, and hopefully we'll be able to quickly assess how much of the technologies to incorporate into our follow-on products," said Huang. [break]Wat er met de Voodoo-naam gaat gebeuren is ook nog even afwachten. het lijkt de schrijver onwaarschijnlijk dat nVidia de naam zelf zal gaan gebruiken en voorspelt dat een videokaartfabrikant de licensie van nVidia zal overnemen:[/break]The options for Nvidia boil down to selling the Voodoo name to a board maker, to license the name, or use it itself for its next or next-but-one generation of graphics chip. The latter seems unlikely, since GeForce is now well established. Licensing may work, but will multiple board vendors all want to offer competing Voodoo cards? We reckon Nvidia will sell it to the highest bidder. We shall see.

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