Computer/electronic Brands that use to command respect but not so much now
Sony: I think they were at it's zenith with Trinitron and walkmans
Zenith: Used to see them alot on cunsumer TVs and VCRs, not sure if they were every considered as a top brand
Texas Instruments: Not sure if they ever went into consumer goods, but I do recall see more adverts for their chips 15-20 years ago. They are still a very respectable company, but maybe not as well known to the end consumer as it used to be.
ABIT: 100% overclock on a celeron 300a using an ABIT motherboard, are they still around?
3dfx: Not sure if that was the company name, their vodoo1/2 stuff was pretty good at the time, now they are no more.
Matrox: Was competitive with the best video cards up till around late 90's/ early 2000s, now they just make specialty video cards supporting multiple displays, I think the recent ATI cards supporting 3+ displays is putting the hurt on them now.
Transmeta: lots of hype around their CPU, but the end product was not too competitive with Intel, running native code on the transmeta CPU was supposed to be much faster, however their CPUs never gained anough market share to deserve serious effort into writing native OS/programs.
IBM: At the very least they lost alot of recognition due to them selling the thinkpad line to lenovo. Their Apex was when the Power PC CPU first launched 15 years ago, lots of hype about x86 being at the doorstep of death.
Zenith: Used to see them alot on cunsumer TVs and VCRs, not sure if they were every considered as a top brand
Texas Instruments: Not sure if they ever went into consumer goods, but I do recall see more adverts for their chips 15-20 years ago. They are still a very respectable company, but maybe not as well known to the end consumer as it used to be.
ABIT: 100% overclock on a celeron 300a using an ABIT motherboard, are they still around?
3dfx: Not sure if that was the company name, their vodoo1/2 stuff was pretty good at the time, now they are no more.
Matrox: Was competitive with the best video cards up till around late 90's/ early 2000s, now they just make specialty video cards supporting multiple displays, I think the recent ATI cards supporting 3+ displays is putting the hurt on them now.
Transmeta: lots of hype around their CPU, but the end product was not too competitive with Intel, running native code on the transmeta CPU was supposed to be much faster, however their CPUs never gained anough market share to deserve serious effort into writing native OS/programs.
IBM: At the very least they lost alot of recognition due to them selling the thinkpad line to lenovo. Their Apex was when the Power PC CPU first launched 15 years ago, lots of hype about x86 being at the doorstep of death.
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