Some enthusiasts even nicknamed them graphics decelerators. The integrated modern style 3D feature produced by S3, was the Savage series of graphics cards. Savage also introduced a motion compensation engine, a quality video scaler, as well as hardware alpha-blended sub-picture blending, a first. However, the 3D performance of the Savage cards was never quite enough to take significant market share. It became apparent S3's integrated 2D technology was no longer enough to ensure the overall success of the chipset.
Subsequently, Savage derived chips turned up in numerous VIA motherboard chipsets as an integrated north bridge solution, such as Twister and UniChrome. More recent discrete derivations have carried the brand names DeltaChrome and GammaChrome. SONICblue was an American consumer electronics company resulting from the merger between computer peripheral maker Diamond Multimedia and graphics chipset maker S3 Incorporated. In November , the combined company changed its name to SONICblue and changed its focus from graphics chipsets and computer peripherals to consumer electronics, such as the Rio line of MP3 players.
The last piece of the company was effectively sold in late , when Best Data acquired the Diamond's Supra modem business along with rights to the Diamond Multimedia name for use in a new video card division. In August , that company said it would discontinue making MP3 players, after it had licensed its digital audio software technology to chipmaker SigmaTel the month before.
However these units are also available for PCI-E. The Chrome series supports DirectX Their latest graphics card, the Chrome gt supports DirectX Integrated functionality enabled attractive pricing, and solid features for competitive prices remained a hallmark of S3's strategy. It remains one of the best selling graphics chipsets of all time. Updated in a number of timely revisions, each time S3 managed to keep the series one step ahead of the competition. While cheap, and popular with some OEMs for this reason, performance and drivers were poor.
Some enthusiasts even nicknamed them graphics decelerators. The integrated modern style 3D feature produced by S3, was the Savage series of graphics cards. Savage also introduced a motion compensation engine, a quality video scaler, as well as hardware alpha-blended sub-picture blending, a first. However, the 3D performance of the Savage cards was never quite enough to take significant market share.
It became apparent S3's integrated 2D technology was no longer enough to ensure the overall success of the chipset. Subsequently, Savage derived chips turned up in numerous VIA motherboard chipsets as an integrated north bridge solution, such as Twister and UniChrome.
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