15 years in 3D: NVIDIA cofounder Chris Malachowsky speaks

When we came out with our first product, which was released with Windows 95, and right after it came out, our customer, which was Diamond Multimedia, came over to NVIDIA and threw us a party and there was cake and all that, and at that time on their radar there were 35 companies trying to do 3D graphics for the PC, and today there are two of us.

And of those 35, ATI was probably one of them, Matrox might have been one of them, but there's really nobody else around. Everyone else either died or was consumed.