title: 3dfx为什么失败？
desc: <blockquote>3dfx Interactive was a company that specialized in the manufacturing of 3D graphics processing units and， later， graphics cards. It was a pioneer in the field from the late 1990s until 2000， when it underwent one of the most high-profile demises in the history of the PC industry. It was headquartered in San Jose， California until， on the verge of bankruptcy， many of its intellectual assets and many employees were acquired by its rival， Nvidia. 3dfx Interactive filed for bankruptcy on October 15， 2002.<blockquote>Wikipedia
topic: 为什么 X 会失败
content: 我记得当时3DFX应用在Voodoo上的单卡多芯片技术把当时的显卡测试分数刷新到了一个新高度，在此之后，技术上就开始走邪路了，双芯片还不够，四芯片，价格也是天价，还得外置电源额外供电，没有专注在单芯片的技术提升上。Voodoo卡只注重游戏的加速能力，对于2D的支持很一般，不支持DVD的硬解码，而ATI在这一块就做的不错，虽然3D加速能力相对差一点，但最早实现了DVD的硬解，技术上慢慢有了突破，慢慢超过了3DFX。在加上还有其它
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