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Famous Graphics Chips: NEC µPD7220 Graphics Display Controller

This is the first in a series of short articles about graphics chips, controllers, and processors that changed the course of the computer graphics (CG) industry. In buzzword talk, they were disruptive devices, and in addition to changing how things were done, the application of those chips made a lot of companies successful. Ironically, all of them are gone now. ...

Jon Peddie

This is the first in a series of short articles about graphics chips, controllers, and processors that changed the course of the computer graphics (CG) industry. In buzzword talk, they were disruptive devices, and in addition to changing how things were done, the application of those chips made a lot of companies successful. Ironically, all of them are gone now. In 1982, NEC changed the landscape of the emerging computer graphics market just as the PC was being introduced, which would be the major change to the heretofore specialized and expensive computer graphics industry. NEC Information Systems, the US arm
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