S3 Graphics Comes out of Hiding with Chrome20

Steve from Hexus writes "S3 Graphics, having been quiet for a while, has today announced a new graphics solution, Chrome20, with which they intend to take some market share away from ATI and Nvidia. From the article: 'We were offered a chance for some hands on play with a mid-range Chrome20 series desktop board - the machine was loaded with over 40 top games. A quick run of Half Life2 , Far Cry , Halo and a couple of other titles demonstrated that S3G's new 90nm mainstream card was working without any visual problems and with very playable frame rates.'"

Sweeet!

[halcyon1234]

Finally, an alternative to all that wonderful ATI stuff.

{blink}

Don't ya love free advertising...

[It doesn't come easy]

The picture of the fan sink was the best part.

Yeah but....

[Stonent1]

Will it run all my "S3D" games that came with my 4MB Virge card 10 years ago?

Coming to an ECS motherboard near you.

[Anonymous Coward]

You'll see me at Fry's....

Even more to come ...

[VincenzoRomano]

... when S3 will adopt the Quantum-Optical technology [slashdot.org]!

I hope it's bundled with PowerPoint.

[i41Overlord]

Because you'll need that to view the slideshow that S3 cards produce in 3d games.

Coming out with

[MxTxL]

I've heard these will be bundled with a 6.8GHz 1TB RAM and 2TB HDD Laptop.

Re:S3 dear god

[myc_lykaon]

Please stay dead you suckered many a poor fools back in the mid ninentys if you wiki Hell you should come back with S3 + Cyrix 686 you were never loved always loathed Please return back under your rock.

AC - meet Mr Period (.) and his friend Mr Comma (,). They make writing fun! They have a cousin you know - She's called Miss Dictionary. All of these fun people are here to help you be understood. Enjoy them, embrace them and above all use them.

If you don't, you'll give people the impression that you are a dribbling fool who married his sister by mistake.

Playable Frame Rates*

[lateralus_1024]

*in head-to-head comparisons against high end ATI / NVidia cards in Windows Safe Mode.

Re:S3 dear god

[sedyn]

"if you wiki Hell you should come back with S3 + Cyrix 686"

Does this mean that S3 = - Cyrix 20?

Hardware Hell

[Average_Joe_Sixpack]

Hardware awaiting those sent to hell:

S3 Virge
VIA KT chipsets
Creative Labs 3DO Blaster
Iomega ZIP
Iomega Buzz
IBM Deskstar
Tandy CDR-1000
HP 5L
Cyrix 386 to 486 CPU Doubler
Anything Belkin

S3 is back? Oh no!

[OmegaBlac]

S3 Graphics, having been quiet for a while,

Well, when a company produces products that earn the nickname "graphics decelerators", being quiet for a while would probably be the best solution; that and going back and improving their solutions doesn't hurt either. ;)

Re:The Obligatory Question

[Anonymous Coward]

What a business sense on you. You seem to know all about the "important thing".

1. Make a graphics card
2. Do "The Important Thing"
3. PROFIT! (but not $20 at a time, for christ sake!)

Re:A tiny market, but a loyal one?

[fossa]

This is S3. I thought competitors *already* know how to make products better than theirs?

Re:S3 dear god

[zuvembi]

If you don't, you'll give people the impression that you are a dribbling fool who married his sister by mistake.

Now, now, let's not be too harsh. I'm sure he married her on purpose.

Re:A tiny market, but a loyal one?

[Jozer99]

Because the second they had to close their driver back up (for some legal reason or something), they would instantly lose their "incredibly loyal" linux following, wheras apple could create a policy where if you buy a mac, you have to be raped by Steve Jobs and they would be as popular as ever. Go ahead, mod me -1, I dare you.