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Early PC graphics were wild: A look back at the pre-GPU era

For most people, the story of graphics cards starts with Nvidia and AMD. The reality is quite different. Long before either of those two companies started to dominate the market, and long before GPUs ...
TechSpot

3Dfx Interactive: Gone But Not Forgotten

Founded in San Jose, California in 1994 by a trio of former Silicon Graphics employees, 3Dfx got its start making hardware for arcade machines. The company's first-gen Voodoo chipset powered arcade ...
Computerworld

Q&A: John Knoll on CGI, Tron and 25 years of change

In 1982, Disney studios released Tron, one of the first films from a major studio to feature extensive computer graphics. The movie is about a programmer (played by Jeff Bridges) who gets “digitized” ...
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3-peat: Top PhD computer graphics innovator nabs prestigious NVIDIA Fellowship

CLEMSON –– For a third year in a row, Jay Steele, a Ph.D. student in computer graphics in the School of Computing, has received the prestigious NVIDIA Fellowship Program award for his work to solve ...
CNET

Lenovo Yoga AIO 27i Desktop Review: A Capable, if Utilitarian, All-in-One Computer

CNET’s expert staff reviews and rates dozens of new products and services each month, building on more than a quarter century of expertise. The Lenovo Yoga AIO 27i (aka the 27IAH10) bucks the trends ...