Skew

"If you recall back to the summer of 2001 during Computex, NVIDIA shocked the world (hardware world that is) when they announced the release of the nForce chipset for the AMD platform. VIA, the leading manufacturer for AMD chipsets at the time was already receiving fierce competition from SIS and now NVIDIA. Knowing what NVIDIA was capable of when they took 3dfx out of business, VIA and SIS knew they had their work cut out for them if they did not want to end up like 3dfx. Well they did not have much to worry about as the original nForce turned out to be plagued with flaws and extremely high prices. Not to forget to mention the huge time gap between when the original nForce was announced and when consumers began to see them on retail shelves."

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