Diamond Multimedia is an American company that specializes in many forms of multimedia technology.
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12 Facts About Diamond Multimedia
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Diamond Multimedia later merged with S3, Incorporated in 1999 after a long-time cooperative business arrangement, when S3 decided to expand their business from producing graphics chipsets to manufacturing retail graphics cards.
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Growth in the add-on sound card market, an ongoing Diamond Multimedia business, was tempered by the 2000 bankruptcy of Aureal Semiconductor and subsequent asset purchase by vertically-integrated Creative Technologies.
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Diamond Multimedia resurfaced in 2003 after the brand and assets had been purchased by Best Data.
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In 1999, Diamond Multimedia was acquired by S3 Graphics and became primarily a supplier of products based upon their graphics accelerator chips.
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Diamond Multimedia altered the PCB reference design and labeled their device VFX 2000 series professional workstation graphics card.
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Diamond Multimedia instead used ESS's less powerful chips to continue the line.
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Diamond Multimedia XtremeSound is the first sound card line launched after the company's restructuring in 2003.
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Diamond Multimedia's innovation created the Rio PMP300, one of the first consumer MP3 players, but they soon sold their MP3 player line and no longer provide support for it.
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Diamond Multimedia began manufacturing PC-compatible motherboards after purchasing Micronics Computers Inc in 1998.
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Diamond Multimedia produced the capable but relatively low-cost FirePort 40 SCSI adapter in the late 1990s.
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