
3dfx popularized consumer 3D acceleration with its Voodoo cards and Glide API but died after buying STB Systems and turning partners into competitors. Nvidia bought most of 3dfx's assets in December 2000. The author Ty Sherback lists five defunct PC hardware brands that failed due to strategy errors, mismanagement, or acquisition, not bad products.
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