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How the Dreamcast almost bankrupted Nvidia before a Sega executive saved the company | "His understanding and generosity gave us six months to live"
Nvidia's first graphics accelerator product, the NV1, hadn't found much success following its release in 1995. But that didn't stop Sega from asking Nvidia to develop the...
The CEO recently admitted that fulfilling its contract with Sega would have left it too far behind the competition, but stopping the use of the NV2 chip would cause it to run out of cash. As reported by Wall Street Insights, Nvidia was saved by one man, the then-CEO of Sega America, Shoichiro Irimajiri. It's interesting to theorize what might have happened if Nvidia had managed to create the Dreamcast's GPU, or if Irimajiri had decided not to invest any money in Huang's then-fledgling firm.
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