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S3 Graphics, Ltd.
Company typeSubsidiary
IndustryComputer hardware
FoundedJanuary 1989; 35 years ago (1989-01)
FateDefunct or Merged
HeadquartersFremont, California, U.S.
Key people
Dado Banatao
Ronald Yara
ProductsVideo cards
ParentHTC
Websitewww.s3graphics.com

S3 Graphics, Ltd. (commonly referred to as S3) was an American computer graphics company. The company sold the Trio, ViRGE, Savage, and Chrome series of graphics processors. Struggling against competition from 3dfx Interactive, ATI and Nvidia, it merged with hardware manufacturer Diamond Multimedia in 1999. The resulting company renamed itself to SONICblue Incorporated, and, two years later, the graphics portion was spun off into a new joint effort with VIA Technologies. The new company focused on the mobile graphics market. VIA Technologies' stake in S3 Graphics was purchased by HTC in 2011.

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S3 Graphics

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S3 Graphics, Ltd. (commonly referred to as S3) was an American computer graphics company. The company sold the Trio, ViRGE, Savage, and Chrome series of...

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S3 Trio

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The S3 Trio range were popular video cards for personal computers and were S3's first fully integrated graphics accelerators. As the name implies, three...

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S3 ViRGE

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market. Introduced in 1996 by then graphics powerhouse S3, Inc., the ViRGE was S3's first foray into 3D-graphics. The S3/Virge was the successor to the successful...

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S3 Savage

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Savage was a product-line of PC graphics chipsets designed by S3. At the 1998 E3 Expo S3 introduced the first Savage product, Savage3D. Compared to its...

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S3 Graphics Chrome 400

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S3 Graphics Chrome 400 is a computer graphics chip made by VIA. It was the successor of S3 Chrome S20 series. VIA planned the production of two new graphics...

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S3 Texture Compression

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algorithms originally developed by Iourcha et al. of S3 Graphics, Ltd. for use in their Savage 3D computer graphics accelerator. The method of compression is strikingly...

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Number Nine Visual Technology

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"letter-of-intent" for S3 Inc. (later S3 Graphics Co.) to buy substantially all assets and intellectual property of Number Nine. By mid 2000, S3 had completed...

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Video Graphics Array

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ATI: Graphics Solution Plus, Wonder series, Mach series S3 Graphics: S3 911, 911A, 924, 801, 805, 805i, 928, 805p, 928p, S3 Vision series, S3 Trio series...

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S3

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National Vegetation Classification system S3 Graphics, a computer-hardware company S3 Group, an Irish software company S3 Texture Compression, a group of lossy...

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Graphics processing unit

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VGA. Super VGA enabled graphics display resolutions up to 800×600 pixels, a 36% increase. In 1991, S3 Graphics introduced the S3 86C911, which its designers...

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S3 Chrome

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S3 Graphics' Chrome series of graphics accelerators arrived in 2004 with the DeltaChrome line of chips. They were supplied as discrete, mobile, or integrated...

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Dado Banatao

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Windows Graphics accelerator chip for personal computers. A three-time start-up veteran, he co-founded Mostron, Chips and Technologies, and S3 Graphics. Banatao...

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VIA Technologies

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acquired the ailing S3 Graphics business in 2001. While the S3 Savage chipset was not fast enough to survive as a discrete graphics product, its low manufacturing...

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Diamond Multimedia

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with S3, Incorporated in 1999 after a long-time cooperative business arrangement, when S3 decided to expand their business from producing graphics chipsets...

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List of computer hardware manufacturers

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Matrox Moore Threads Nvidia Oak Technology(Graphics Business Unit) Qualcomm S3 Graphics Via (S3 Graphics division) Vivante Corporation ZiiLABS Trident...

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Smartphone patent wars

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HTC files an ITC complaint against Apple over 5 patents. 2010, May 28: S3 Graphics files an ITC complaint against Apple over 4 patents used in the iPhone...

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HTC

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2011, it was announced that HTC would buy VIA Technologies' stake in S3 Graphics. On 6 August 2011, HTC acquired Dashwire for $18.5M. In August 2011,...

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Direct Rendering Manager

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kernel already had an API called fbdev, used to manage the framebuffer of a graphics adapter, but it couldn't be used to handle the needs of modern 3D-accelerated...

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Chrome S20 series

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Chrome 20 Series is a graphics accelerator by S3 Graphics, the successor of GammaChrome S18. The Chrome 20 series was introduced on March 11, 2005, with...

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Voodoo3

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had appealed to OEM system builders for years, with boards such as the S3 Graphics ViRGE VX-based STB Velocity 3D and Nvidia RIVA 128-based Velocity 128...

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Raja Koduri

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a Master of Technology degree from IIT Kharagpur. Raja Koduri joined S3 Graphics in 1996. He became the director of advanced technology development at...

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DeskStation Technology

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200 MB hard drive, the systems were fitted with a video adapter from S3 Graphics and were bundled with 14-inch colour monitors. The rPC/40 was priced...

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VGA text mode

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these messages in VGA mode. S3 Graphics. "VC963-3D (S3 ViRGE/DX) User Manual". Archived from the original on 13 April 2020. The S3 ViRGE supports 132×43 and...

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Tseng Labs

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the graphics card shakeout of the mid-1990s, losing market share to S3 Graphics and ATI Technologies. Tseng was especially late to integrate a RAMDAC...

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Windows Vista

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and later, Intel's GMA 950 and later integrated graphics, and a handful of VIA chipsets and S3 Graphics discrete chips are supported. Although originally...

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DisplayPort

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Matrox Graphics Micro-Star International MStar Semiconductor Novatek Microelectronics Corp. Palit Microsystems Ltd. Pioneer Corporation S3 Graphics Toshiba...

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List of defunct graphics chips and card companies

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Technology S3 – merged with Diamond Multimedia, then sold off its core graphics division to VIA Technologies, later sold off to HTC Silicon Graphics Incorporated...

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