BitBoys

Bitboys Oy is a hardware development and licensing company based in Finland, founded in 1991 and acquired by ATI Technologies for up to US$44M on May 2, 2006. [cite news |title=ATI acquires Bitboys |url=http://www.theinquirer.net/en/inquirer/news/2006/05/02/ati-acquires-bitboys |work=The Inquirer |date=2006-05-02 |accessdate=2008-03-29 ] Until the acquisition, Bitboys had focused on mobile phone gaming, and had developed a large vector graphics-related portfolio. [cite news |title=Bitboys offers tiny mobile graphics chips |url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2003/07/28/bitboys_offers_tiny_mobile_graphics/ |work=The register |date=2003-07-28 |accessdate=2008-03-29 ]

Bitboys became infamous after the 1999 announcement of their Glaze3D series of graphics cards, [cite news |title=BitBoys Is First With Embedded DRAM for Graphics |url=http://www.cbronline.com/article_cg.asp?guid=2BAC9B9E-97B2-4ECE-8966-3059C92D6D2A |work=Computer Business Review |date=1999-09-02 |accessdate=2008-03-29 ] which later turned out to be vaporware. [cite news |title=Bitboys' 3D superchip schedule slips again? |url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2000/08/14/bitboys_3d_superchip_schedule_slips/ |work=The Register |date=2000-08-14 |accessdate=2008-03-29 ] When Infineon Technologies shut down its embedded DRAM production line, Bitboys quickly transformed from PC desktop graphics chip business to mobile graphics IP business. [cite news |title=Bitboys offers next-gen mobile 3D chips |url=http://www.theregister.co.uk/2004/08/10/bitboys_g40/ |work=The Register |date=2004-08-10 |accessdate=2008-03-29 ] They could not find another manufacturer capable of producing the part because of the high amount of embedded DRAM used.

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External links

* [http://www.bitboys.com Bitboys Oy official website]