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Frequently Asked Questions

• What is an S3 Graphics Card?

  S3 produces graphics cards primarily for PCs. While the earlier products such as the TRIO range were 2D only, later 3D functionality was added with the ViRGE and then Savage cards. More recently S3 chipsets have been sold as integrated VIA northbridge parts. However these units are also available for PCI-E.

• What is S3 chipsets?

  S3 produces graphics cards primarily for PCs. While the earlier products such as the TRIO range were 2D only, later 3D functionality was added with the ViRGE and then Savage cards. More recently S3 chipsets have been sold as integrated VIA northbridge parts.

• Who is the owner of S3?

  In July 2011, HTC Corporation announced they were buying VIA Technologies' stake in S3 Graphics, thus becoming the majority owner of S3 Graphics. In November, the United States International Trade Commission ruled against S3 in a patent dispute with Apple.

• What is the S3D engine?

  By the end of the year, S3 launched the ViRGE ('Virtual Reality Graphics Engine') chip; essentially an improved Trio with some 3D capability shoehorned into it (marketed as the S3d Engine ). Add-in cards using the processor weren't readily available until early 1996, and these first offerings were met with universal ambivalence.

• What is S3 Graphics?

  S3, though, would live on with an entirely unoriginal new name (S3 Graphics) and a new purpose: integrated chipsets. At the start of the millennium, CPUs from AMD and Intel -- such as the Athlon XP and Pentium III -- didn't have a graphics processor built into them.

• What is the relationship between S3 and Nvidia?

  Just as AMD and Nvidia do today, S3 used other companies to manufacture and distribute the chips, which would then be purchased by add-in board vendors for their own products.

• What is the S3D engine?

  By the end of the year, S3 launched the ViRGE ('Virtual Reality Graphics Engine') chip; essentially an improved Trio with some 3D capability shoehorned into it (marketed as the S3d Engine ). Add-in cards using the processor weren't readily available until early 1996, and these first offerings were met with universal ambivalence.