- Date: April 25, 2025
- Categories: RIVA 128
Riva 128. As I mentioned that the number of smart decisions we made, which are smart to this day, how we design chips is exactly the same to this day because, gosh, you know, nobody’s ever done it back then. And we pulled every trick in the book in a desperation because we had no other choice. Well guess what? —
And now everybody does it that way, right? Everybody does it. Because why should you do things twice if you can do it once? Why tape on a chip seven times? If you could tape it out one time. Right. And so the most efficient, the most cost effective, the most competitive. Speed is technology, right? Speed is performance.
Time to market is performance. All of those things apply. So why do things twice if you could do it once. Yeah. And so Riva 128 made a lot of great decisions in how we spec products. How we, how we think about market needs and lack of and how do we judge markets and all of this. And we made some amazing, amazingly good decisions.
Yeah. We were, you know, back against the wall. We only had one more shot to do it