SiS buys Trident!

hehe I hope they come out with somethin that kills 9800p and 5900U..that will jus be so funny. Shock the fuk out of ATi and nVidia.:p
 
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I guess you gotta start somewhere.

I take this seriously though.. call me crazy. But if they are a good combination together we could be seeing some new competition in at least the mid-range area...
 
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Since I see that this is a serious topic I will say these two companies combining their technology could prove to be a formidable force against ATI and nv due to the fact that they're back by UMC. I would like to think that fab plant has the resources to produce very good things. Now my main issues is if they limt themselves. I hope that we aren't seeing the birth of a big time laptop chipset giant. I hope that "XGI" (sounds funny typing their name out as a real contender:D ) will expand to the desktop market with a force that link we haven't seen since ATI brought out ArtX. having a third respectable brand in the video card market would be a good thing to all of us.
PS what is Via plans concerning the deltachrome? Is it just just gonna be a onborad card or will they ever start selling it as a stand alone card?
 
we should all be celebrating the possibility of new video cards coming out that aren't ATI or Nvidia. Seriously, nobody said you had to buy an SIS/Trident video card, nor a VIA Deltachrome card. And that's the point, the price of the card you want by ATI or Nvidia will drop in price and give you even more for your money because there will be more competition. You'll see VIVO become more and more of a standard, maybe some things included in the box like 3d glasses or more top-of-the-line games, rebates, contests, yadda yadda

Competition fuels consumer benefits... embrace the SIS/Trident merge. Besides you never know, maybe they'll make something that'll surprise us all and get 20,000 in 3dmark2k3... lol
 
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we should all be celebrating the possibility of new video cards coming out that aren't ATI or Nvidia. Seriously, nobody said you had to buy an SIS/Trident video card, nor a VIA Deltachrome card. And that's the point, the price of the card you want by ATI or Nvidia will drop in price and give you even more for your money because there will be more competition.
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I think people(except fanboys ofcourse) will start buying SIS vid cards if they release one that is worthy enough to be bought. Most people who have a bit of knowledge abt vid cards will buy the best product out there regardless of the company that makes em. Everybody is jus Ati/nVidia oriented jus caz both of them have proven themselves by releasing good cards(except NV30;)). I also hope Sis would add more competition to the present market which, at the end is good for us consumers. However, i dont think this is going to happen soon.
 
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we should all be celebrating the possibility of new video cards coming out that aren't ATI or Nvidia. Seriously, nobody said you had to buy an SIS/Trident video card, nor a VIA Deltachrome card. And that's the point, the price of the card you want by ATI or Nvidia will drop in price and give you even more for your money because there will be more competition. You'll see VIVO become more and more of a standard, maybe some things included in the box like 3d glasses or more top-of-the-line games, rebates, contests, yadda yadda

Competition fuels consumer benefits... embrace the SIS/Trident merge. Besides you never know, maybe they'll make something that'll surprise us all and get 20,000 in 3dmark2k3... lol
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I hope that SIS/Trident merger does something that will bring a serious competitor to the graphics cards market.

But something like this already happened...Creative Labs bought 3dLabs, then they made the P10 VPU for OpenGL Workstation card market last year, now they are coming to the consumer market with a P10 based card, but...hold it...wait for it...its a Dx8.1/OGL 1.3 based graphics card that is aimed at the mid market segment price wise.

I am kind of hoping Matrox revises the Parhelia 512 GPU core and stays at 15 micron but releases it as a AGP8x, Dx9.0a/OGL 2.0 compliant graphics card with triple head and 256MB ram as standard, but then again that might never happen that way...
 
I have a little shuttle box with integrated SiS video and for 2D and DVD/Divx it works really well and looks great. The drivers seem to be very stable as well. I've never tried games on it, but I didn't build that box for games (it's my parents' machine).
 
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