NeoMagic
NeoMagic was founded in Santa Clara / California in the summer of 1993 and originally specialized in multimedia chips. At that time graphics chips for the notebook sector still belonged to this category .
NeoMagic was the first company, thanks to their MAGIC technique ( M emory A nd lo GIC , for example to German memory and logic ) larger amounts of DRAM integrated directly into the graphics chip and dealt as a bottleneck in chip design.
NeoMagics chips were the fastest and most economical graphics chips for notebooks from 1996 to the beginning of 2000. However, they had the disadvantage that they did not have any 3D functions, so that with the increasing popularity of 3D accelerators in the notebook sector, it was decided to abandon them Withdrawing from the market and focusing on SoCs instead.
In total, NeoMagic has sold more than 22 million graphics chips.
Graphics chips
- MagicGraph 128: January 1996
- MagicGraph 128V
- MagicGraph 128ZV
- MagicGraph 128ZV +
- MagicGraph 128XD
- MagicMedia 256AV: June 1998
- MagicMedia 256ZX: June 1999
- MagicMedia 256XL +: June 1999, rudimentary 3D accelerator