Famous Graphics Chips: Artist Graphics GPX

Artist Graphics founded 1979 by Horace and Robert Beale, in Minneapolis released their first add-in board, the Artist 1 in November of 1982, based on an NEC 7220 and sporting a gigantic 1024 × 768 resolution. The traditional semiconductor suppliers like Hitachi, NEC, and Texas Instruments were not keeping up with the demands of the graphics industry, and the graphics board companies wanted more of the profit from the graphics boards. As the computer graphics board industry shifted from commodity graphics chips to proprietary graphics chips, Artist graphics developed their own graphics chip, the GPX, in late 1992 for their