CeBIT 2003 editorial - Meeting - NVIDIA

I just realized that some of you don't even know who 3dfx was .. 3dfx was a king graphics chipset manufacturer a few years ago which was taken over by NVIDIA after a nasty and rough period. Some of the technology and ideas of 3dfx are now actually included into the all new GeForce FX. Products in the 3dfx era where of course the Voodoo series (like Graphics, Banshee, Rush, II, 3, 4 and 5). In fact if you visit our hardware review section you'll still see a handful of reviews on them. I'll give you one line of a Voodoo Graphics review 'So I installed it without any trouble into my Pentium 120, 48Mb & 4 Gig System.' Hilarious isn't it.

I can't enclose too much details as most of the meeting was NDA material. We briefly talked about the new mobility line-up and of course the Desktop line-up from which you know by now will be replaced by GeForce FX products, by next month already, completely. That means a complete DirectX9 compatible product in all segments. This means a GeForce FX based graphics card in the low, mid, and high-end segment. In the end this will likely replace the GeForce 3 and 4 range of products as this series is competing directly at them at a comparable price and performance while it has the advantage of being a full DirectX 9 compatible product.

The upcoming product line up like this: