Club 3D, founded in 1997 as Colour Power (Club 3D since 2005), is a Dutch brand of

video card A graphics card (also called a video card, display card, graphics adapter, VGA card/VGA, video adapter, display adapter, or mistakenly GPU) is an expansion card which generates a feed of output images to a display device, such as a computer mon ...

s and digital multimedia products such as

TV tuner card A TV tuner card is a kind of television tuner that allows television signals to be received by a computer. Most TV tuners also function as video capture cards, allowing them to record television programs onto a hard disk much like the digital ...

s and digital

sound card A sound card (also known as an audio card) is an internal expansion card that provides input and output of audio signals to and from a computer under the control of computer programs. The term ''sound card'' is also applied to external audio i ...

s for PCs, featuring

AMD Advanced Micro Devices, Inc. (AMD) is an American multinational semiconductor company based in Santa Clara, California, that develops computer processors and related technologies for business and consumer markets. While it initially manufact ...

graphics chipsets and technologies.

History

Pioneers in the introduction of the first graphics cards from

S3 Graphics S3 Graphics, Ltd (commonly referred to as S3) was an American computer graphics company. The company sold the Trio, ViRGE, Savage 3D, and Chrome series of graphics processors. Struggling against competition from 3dfx Interactive, ATI and Nv ...

3dfx 3dfx Interactive was an American technology company headquartered in San Jose, California, founded in 1994, that specialized in the manufacturing of 3D graphics processing units, and later, video cards. It was a pioneer in the field from the ...

ATI Technologies ATI Technologies Inc. (commonly called ATI) was a Canadian semiconductor technology corporation based in Markham, Ontario, that specialized in the development of graphics processing units and chipsets. Founded in 1985 as Array Technology Inc., ...

and NVIDIA. Previously the only

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in the world that officially sold AMD/ATI and NVIDIA under one brand. * 2001 – Pioneers at being the first AIB (Add-in-Board) for ATI/AMD. Launched ATI AIB solutions at

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, 2001. * 2001 – Branch office in Germany for the DACH market * 2003 – Official partnership with S3 Graphics * 2003 – Official partnership with XGI Technologies * 2004 – Generated an excess of 900,000 retail unit sales of ATI Technologies video card graphics adapters * 2006 – Official partnership with NVIDIA Corporation * 2006 – Launched Theatron products, range of sound cards * 2007 – Launched VAX Barcelona bag accessories range * 2010 – Official launch of the accessories division * 2011 – Official launch of high end 80 plus switching power supplies division * 2011 – Official launch of SenseVision division, USB powered video graphics adapters * 2013 - Drops NVIDIA support and commits to AMD only. * 2016 - First to market worldwide with the Displayport 1.2 to HDMI 2.0 Active Adapters

References

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