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Club 3D

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Club 3D B.V.
Company typePrivate company
IndustrySemiconductor
Founded1997; 27 years ago (1997) (Club 3D since 2005)
Headquarters,
The Netherlands
ProductsGraphics cards
Sound cards
TV tuner cards
Websitewww.club-3d.com
www.club-3d.de
www.club-3d.nl

Club 3D, founded in 1997 as Colour Power (Club 3D since 2005), is a Dutch brand of video cards and digital multimedia products such as TV tuner cards and digital sound cards for PCs, featuring AMD graphics chipsets and technologies.

History

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Pioneers in the introduction of the first graphics cards from S3 Graphics, 3dfx, ATI Technologies and NVIDIA. Previously the only privately owned company in the world that officially sold AMD/ATI and NVIDIA under one brand.[citation needed]

  • 2001 – Pioneers at being the first AIB (Add-in-Board) for ATI/AMD. Launched ATI AIB solutions at Computex, 2001.
  • 2001 – Branch office in Germany for the DACH market
  • 2003 – Official partnership with S3 Graphics
  • 2003 – Official partnership with XGI Technologies
  • 2004 – Generated an excess of 900,000 retail unit sales of ATI Technologies video card graphics adapters
  • 2006 – Official partnership with NVIDIA Corporation
  • 2006 – Launched Theatron products, range of sound cards
  • 2007 – Launched VAX Barcelona bag accessories range
  • 2010 – Official launch of the accessories division
  • 2011 – Official launch of high end 80 plus switching power supplies division
  • 2011 – Official launch of SenseVision division, USB powered video graphics adapters
  • 2013 - Drops NVIDIA support and commits to AMD only.[1]
  • 2016 - First to market worldwide with the Displayport 1.2 to HDMI 2.0 Active Adapters[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ "Club3D Committed to Sale AMD Graphic Cards Only - No Longer Offers NVIDIA GPUs". 14 June 2013.