wow this could be some interesting weeks!

Well, technicaly there is no chance of resurection - but somebody will have to pay a "little" more then he already did Nvidia will have problems if it's assets are to be shown in public, but only indirectly. ATI could profit out of this.

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And Bill Gates might give away all his fortune to the sick and hungry children of Africa, let windows code be open to the public and live humbly and pennyless to the rest of his life. 

This will prove interesting for sure but ultimately nothing will really come out of this. Nvidia might have to pay out a little more. I'd love nothing more then to see 3DFX come back alive but lets face it, miss management kind of lead to the down fall to begin with. 30,000 dollar trips and so on wasn't the smartest way to spend their money.

ööö... what's the subject of the trial. It' didn't lightened up for me from that link ???

IF 3dfx will rise again what should be do about SLI.
3dfx invented it and nVidia claimed it and has been used few years. should 3dfx take that brand name polluted by nVidia back or invent a new and more better name for 2 GPU prosessing?

I think 3dfx should invent a new name for voodoo 6 dual prosessing. like  NeMaSo (=new magical solution)

He're some update on the situation:
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/16974103.htm

"Jen-Hsun Huang, the chief executive of graphics-chip maker Nvidia, said in court testimony Friday he did not feel duped in his firm's 2001 acquisition of 3dfx, a struggling rival.

Huang testified on the third day of a trial in which Nvidia is being sued by creditors of 3dfx over how much Santa Clara-based Nvidia paid for the now bankrupt company.

Nvidia purchased 3dfx, the developer of the popular Voodoo graphics boards, for $70 million in cash and a promise of 1 million in stock if 3dfx met certain financial conditions, which it did not.

Creditors of 3dfx now claim the company was worth about $150 million. But Nvidia contends it overpaid for 3dfx, which it now estimates was worth about $15 million."

And it seems that there was another player in the game: VIA Tech!

"Lawyers for the creditors said Nvidia was in a bidding war for San Jose-based 3dfx with another chip maker, Via Technologies. Peter Bertrand, attorney for the creditors' trustee, said Nvidia did not make an offer to buy 3dfx but instead offered a strategic investment. Huang said he did not know how the competitive bid by Via was structured.

``I don't think it was in 3dfx management's best interest to tell me what Via was offering,'' Huang said. When asked if he felt he was ``duped'' by 3dfx management, Huang said no.

`I don't consider that we were duped. We offered a fair deal. And they accepted our deal and they seemed happy with it.'' "