Diamond Multimedia ritorna!!!!

[GioFX]

Da HardOCP:

Diamond's Back:

Not only is Diamond Multimedia announcing that it is back, they are saying that they will be "silicon-agnostic", serving up both ATI and NVIDIA chipsets.

Los Angeles, California – October 27, 2003 – Diamond Multimedia®, a pioneer in the graphics industry, today announced its return to the consumer graphics market with plans to launch next-generation graphics accelerators under its legendary Stealth® and Viper® brands, two of the most well-known and respected retail names in graphics history. Continuing the tradition of these brands, the Stealth product line will offer a full series of value-based cards while Viper will target high-end gamers. True to its heritage, Diamond will continue to remain chip vendor neutral, offering consumers products from multiple vendors to provide maximum performance and value at each price point.

The first new Diamond products will begin shipping in November and are planned to feature technology from both of the leading graphics chip vendors, ATI and NVIDIA. As with previous Diamond products, the new lines will include bundles of popular software titles and additional offers and will be available at national retailers and through distribution.

Do be advised that this is much like the Hercules acquisition we saw by Guillemot back in the day. What is really interesting here in some sort of cosmic way, even though the Diamond PRs are dated yesterday, Guillemot officially took over the Hercules' Intellectual Properties on October 28, 1999. Four years ago today...

This started taking place back in August as shown by this cached Google page. From my best assessment the only thing that will be "Diamond" will be the logo and the naming.

Los Angeles, California – October 27, 2003 – Best Data Products, Inc. today announced its has completed its acquisition of Diamond Multimedia from SONICblue Incorporated including the Diamond Multimedia®, Stealth®, Viper® and Supra® trade names and trademarks as well as business assets, product inventory, and other intellectual property. Diamond will be run as an independent division of Best Data focusing on selling select, high-quality graphics, communications and other media devices that enable people to experience the best of the digital lifestyle.

Still another player in the USA market will be a good thing and it will be interesting to see if they get really aggressive with design or just become another reference card reseller. It will be interesting to see just how much respect they get from NVIDIA and ATI while being the first to ride the fence here in North America for quite a while.

Diamond Multimedia

[renatofast]

FIGATA io ho avuto la monster 1 di 4 MB e 2 monster 2 12MB messe in SLI che FIGATA DI SCHEDE !

[Korn]

cioè s3 ha venduto diamond o la usa come produttrice di schede?

[GioFX]

Diamond MM era diventata SONICblue, ricordi?

[Dark Schneider]

Mitica Diamond.......come dimenticare la Diamond Viper 550

[spaceboy]

Originariamente inviato da Dark Schneider
Mitica Diamond.......come dimenticare la Diamond Viper 550

io avevo la 770

[-=Krynn=-]

io le ho avute tutte e due

[rera]

Originariamente inviato da Dark Schneider
Mitica Diamond.......come dimenticare la Diamond Viper 550

bella scheda, l'avevo anch'io, a un mio amico ho fatto prendere la 770 ultra.

[Korn]

Originariamente inviato da GioFX
Diamond MM era diventata SONICblue, ricordi?

no

[KarmaP]

Miticooooooo anche io Monster-Viper-Ultra....bastava fosse Diamond e correvo a prenderle