Source : Inquirer
The only company to partner with all four graphic players
CLUB 3D has finally done it. After lot of fights and despair from Nvidia, it finally got onto Nvidia's partner list. It took the plucky little Club of 3D people a couple of years to get there, but now there is nothing sweeter than victory. Club 3D was ATI's partner for a long time and had been doing some nice sales, especially for the Red Ones in Germany and some southern European markets.
For the time being, Nvidia tended to ignore it, but just before the Yulefest celebration, Gaffzilla made its peace with Club 3D and sealed the deal. Club 3D has two more partners on its partner list. It works rather closely with S3,a company now owned and tranquilised by Via and it's doing its best to sell as many of these chips as possible. It's not an easy task, I believe, as Via and S3 don't spend enough attention on drivers. S3 has got quite a long way along the road improving its drivers but it still can and has to be a little bit better.
Last, but not leastly, is graphic newcomer XGI. The company certainly could not pick a worse time to show up on the market but these guys are getting some attention with the chips they're peddling. They showed up in the middle Nvidia's Pure cache versus ATI's Hyper memory marchitecture fight and XGI is still trying to fight Nvidia and ATI where it hurts the most. In the entry level, huge quantity market. XGI is working hard and it has some money from its parent UMC or SIS whoever owns it these days.
That makes Club 3D a rather unique company. It is working the way it's meant to be worked. I can remember the times when Asus had to pack its first Athlon motherboards in white as it was terrified of the then not so cuddly Intel, and when most of the graphic companies were settling on ATI or Nvidia, but certainly not both. Well, ye times they are a changing, and Club 3D is here to kind of lead those changes. It is selling everybody's graphics and promiscuously partners with Nvidia, ATI, S3 and XGI. It just needs Intel to complete the cycle.
The only company to partner with all four graphic players
CLUB 3D has finally done it. After lot of fights and despair from Nvidia, it finally got onto Nvidia's partner list. It took the plucky little Club of 3D people a couple of years to get there, but now there is nothing sweeter than victory. Club 3D was ATI's partner for a long time and had been doing some nice sales, especially for the Red Ones in Germany and some southern European markets.
For the time being, Nvidia tended to ignore it, but just before the Yulefest celebration, Gaffzilla made its peace with Club 3D and sealed the deal. Club 3D has two more partners on its partner list. It works rather closely with S3,a company now owned and tranquilised by Via and it's doing its best to sell as many of these chips as possible. It's not an easy task, I believe, as Via and S3 don't spend enough attention on drivers. S3 has got quite a long way along the road improving its drivers but it still can and has to be a little bit better.
Last, but not leastly, is graphic newcomer XGI. The company certainly could not pick a worse time to show up on the market but these guys are getting some attention with the chips they're peddling. They showed up in the middle Nvidia's Pure cache versus ATI's Hyper memory marchitecture fight and XGI is still trying to fight Nvidia and ATI where it hurts the most. In the entry level, huge quantity market. XGI is working hard and it has some money from its parent UMC or SIS whoever owns it these days.
That makes Club 3D a rather unique company. It is working the way it's meant to be worked. I can remember the times when Asus had to pack its first Athlon motherboards in white as it was terrified of the then not so cuddly Intel, and when most of the graphic companies were settling on ATI or Nvidia, but certainly not both. Well, ye times they are a changing, and Club 3D is here to kind of lead those changes. It is selling everybody's graphics and promiscuously partners with Nvidia, ATI, S3 and XGI. It just needs Intel to complete the cycle.
