S3 was founded and incorporated in January 1989 by Dado Banatao and Ronald Yara.
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S3 Graphics Chrome 500 series is the successor of S3 Graphics Chrome S20 series, and is produced in parallel to the S3 Graphics Chrome 400.
At one time there were many manufacturers of graphics accelerators, including: 3dfx; ATI; Hercules; Trident; Nvidia; Radius; S3 Graphics; SiS and Silicon Graphics.
In 1991, S3 Graphics introduced the S3 86C911, which its designers named after the Porsche 911 as an implication of the performance increase it promised.
SonicBlue was sued over the commercial-skipping feature of ReplayTV on similar grounds.
There was a brief rebirth soon after, however, when Fujitsu claimed to be working on a single-chip implementation that would be available in 1998, with rumors of similar projects at S3 Graphics and ATI Technologies.
RioPort's major investors included Oak Investment Partners, Viacom, Paul Allen's Vulcan Ventues, and consumer electronics company S3 Graphics.
It was not until the late 1990s that Trident finally released a competitive chip, the TGUI-9880 (Blade3D.) By this time, Trident's reach had once again retreated to the low-end OEM market, where it was crowded by ATI, S3, and SiS.