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Re:Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B by diabllicseagull on Thursday August 27, 2026 @09:57AM (#49465005)
have you heard of PhysX, Hairworks, or the CUDA moat?
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Re:Nvidia agrees to acquire Hugging Face for $13B by SJC_Hacker on Thursday August 27, 2026 @04:58PM (#49471170)
3dfx hardware didn’t run anything but Glide very well. It did run some OpenGL after iD twisted their arm, but it was a really crummy implementation

While ATI and Nvidia never tried to implement a Glide emulation layer, several hobbyists did and 3dfx shut them down with legal threats

Were there any legal barriers to ATI/AMD or Intel implementing CUDA or PhysX on their systems?

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