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So what PODs get us a third competitor along with AMD and nVidia?
I think 3DFX is the most likely, given the number of bad decisions they made.
Supporting OpenGL and Direct3D fully, instead of Glide and MiniGL.
Skipping the Voodoo Rush, because it sucked.
Not leaking that they got the contract for the Dreamcast, raising the ire of Sega and leading to them choosing PowerVR instead.
Giving the Voodoo Banshee a second TMU, so it could meet or beat the Voodoo 2.
Not buying STB.
Supporting 32 bit color and high resolution textures with the Voodoo 3.
Matrox would be the second most likely. If the Parhelia had matched the Geforce 4 Ti 4600 with eight textures units (instead of four) and the same clock rate, it would have had superior performance, given its 256 bit memory bus. This could've saved Matrox.
Are there any PODs that would allow 3DLabs, PowerVR, Rendition, S3, Trident, or XGI to still be in the GPU market?