3DFX is back???

No. Probably some troll

 

Yep, not a verified account either.

 

3DFX twitted that it's back?

https://wccftech.com/gpu-maker-3dfx...-years-major-announcement-expected-next-week/

What could this mean? Maybe as an AIB? Maybe with some kind of niche graphics card using Glide but compatible with Windows 10/11 for nostalgic sake? Surely not as a new GPU maker? Who would bankroll them? Maybe for mobile devices only? Puzzling...

 

Maybe it's the next Silent Hill or Metal Gear Solid game...

 

Nah, there's little chance for anything but a troll. Even the image it's using is fanart from 3dfx community from 2014.

 

Fool!
It's the Dreamcast 2, Black Belt is back!

 

The original trademarks seems to have all lapsed (not that I did a thorough search, though) so pretty much anyone could be using the 3dfx brand without issue.

There are a couple of active registrations for the word mark (none seem related to Nvidia/3dfx of old), while something eerily similar to the old 3dfx logo is trademarked from China. The latter probably isn't legal though, as Nvidia likely holds the copyright to the logo and related materials, even if they have lost the trademarks through disuse.

 

yup, and that "an major announcement" gives it away

 

I just prefer "an mayor announcement"

 

Man, hearing about this got me plummeting down the rabbit hole.

Knowing how long enthusiasts kept trying to get the engineering sample Rampage boards to work, as well as tinkering with Voodoo5 drivers to keep it working for newer games for as long as possible - it would NOT surprise me if this is a real attempt by some ex-3dfx engineers to revive the brand.

How funny would it be if it returns as an AMD-exclusive AIB vendor akin to PowerColor and Sapphire...

 

What do you mean "tried"?
I call this a success


Not sure if this is though

 

So 3DFx Copyrights are at nvidia. So maybe a special nvidia gpu editon?

 

It's sortof successful. A lot of features don't work properly on the card, and the memory controller in the Rampage chips is highly unstable. It only runs for a few minutes before crashing.

The copyright and trademarks lapsed in 2016. nVidia didn't use it, so they lose it.

 

I wish I had a scoop on this - but I don't.
As fun as it would be to have something happen here for retro enthusiasts, I think it will end up just being a hoax.

 

Is this enough to withold the copyrights, 3dfx Voodoo 590
https://hothardware.com/news/aw-shucks-nvidias-april-fools-prank-tugs-at-3dfx-fans-heart-strings
https://web.archive.org/web/20110805111238/http://www.geforce.com/News/articles/voodoo-revived

 

Perhaps by the time we get around to an "omega" variant of covid we should be ready for the end-times and witness resurrections of 3dfx and bitboys oy.

 

Don't Bitboys live in Qualcomm?

 

That was the unrealistic part of my post that drew your eye, eh?