and also the 3dFX- Nvidia saga and Nvidia's rise to power. The
3dFX was the true graphics card to revolutnise gaming .
Then after demise of 3DFX, ATI became the messianic company to
oppose Nvidia's growing dominance on the graphics market. An
unlikely candicate ,ATI rose to power after 2000.
Then somewhere behind the scenes, companys like Sony brought about
advanced technology equal to 6 yrs down the road like the PS2 CPU
which had immense horsepower of its own FPU, two 64-bit integer
units (IU) with a 128-bit SIMD multi-media command unit, two
independent floating point vector calculation units (VU0, VU1), an
MPEG 2 decoder circuit (Image Processing Unit/IPU) and high
performance DMA controllers.
