Editing S3 Graphics (section)

{{short description|Former U.S.-based computer graphics company}}
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{{Infobox company
| name = S3 Graphics, Ltd.
| logo = S3 Graphics Logo neu.svg
| logo_size = 175px
| type = [[Subsidiary company|Subsidiary]]
| founded = {{start date and age|1989|1}}
| location = [[Fremont, California]], U.S.
| key_people = [[Dado Banatao]]<br />Ronald Yara
| num_employees = 
| industry = [[Computer hardware]]
| fate = Defunct or Merged
| products = [[Video card]]s
| parent = [[HTC]]
| homepage = {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170104050819/http://www.s3graphics.com/en/index.aspx|title=s3graphics.com}}
}}

'''S3 Graphics, Ltd.''' was an American computer graphics company. The company sold the [[S3 Trio|Trio]], [[S3 ViRGE|ViRGE]], [[S3 Savage|Savage]], and [[S3 Chrome|Chrome]] series of graphics processors. Struggling against competition from [[3dfx Interactive]], [[ATI Technologies|ATI]] and [[Nvidia]], it merged with hardware manufacturer [[Diamond Multimedia]] in 1999. The resulting company renamed itself to [[SONICblue Incorporated]], and, two years later, the graphics portion was spun off into a new joint effort with [[VIA Technologies]]. The new company focused on the mobile graphics market. VIA Technologies' stake in S3 Graphics was purchased by [[HTC]] in 2011.