Na het eerste deel van twee dagen terug staat nu ook deel 2 van AnandTech's terugblik op het jaar 2000 online. Dit deel concentreert zich op de video-industrie, een bedrijfstak waarin de concurrentie moordend is en waarin bedrijven net zo snel kunnen opkomen als verdwijnen. De gamers hebben dit jaar onder andere de komst van ATi en de val van 3dfx gezien. Ondertussen speelde nVidia het klaar om met de GeForce familie in hoog tempo op te klimmen tot trendsetter in 3D-land. Al met al dus een veelbewogen jaar en dus is het ook interessant om te kijken of het in 2001 even spannend gaat worden:
NVIDIA is a very aggressive competitor and has definitely gone to some very great lengths to succeed. Their success does not come without hard work though, as no other manufacturer in the graphics industry has been able to meet release after release on such a tight product cycle. However in the end, it was NVIDIA's ability to meet such incredible product release deadlines that contributed to the death of 3dfx.
This, combined with S3's pulling out of the high-performance graphics market and Matrox's focus on a purely corporate agenda for now, leaves NVIDIA virtually alone in this market. Their next prey? ATI.
But unlike 3dfx, ATI may have what it takes to put up quite a fight. You can expect this New Year to be a very intense battle between ATI and NVIDIA, and as much as it pains us to say this, you shouldn't expect to see any real competition from any of the remaining manufacturers mentioned in this article.
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