Quantum3D
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Quantum3D was founded in 1997 as a spin-off from 3dfx that was created to bring 3dfx's scalable graphics technologies (the Voodoo family of graphics chips) to the game enthusiast, coin-op/arcade/LBE and visual simulation and training market. Founded by 3dfx and SGI co-founders, the company has developed a range of 3dfx and now NVIDIA-based board level and system level products for advanced, realtime 3D graphics and video intensive applications. Quantum3D was instrumental in bringing advanced graphics products to the PC-game enthusiast market and for bringing PC-based, open architecture systems to both the coin-op/arcade/LBE market and to the visual and sensor simulation and training (VSST) market for both military and commercial applications. In addition, Quantum3D has also been a pioneer in bringing commercial, off-the-shelf (COTS) graphics subsystems into the embedded visual computing (EVC) market for avionics, vetronics and command and control applications.
Concurrent with the sale of 3dfx assets to NVIDIA in 2000, Quantum3D switched to NVIDIA as its primary graphics technology supplier. Since that date, Quantum3D has introduced a number of VSST and EVC products including the Independence family of COTS image generators for flight simulation and other training applications as well as the Sentiris PCI Mezzanine Card (PMC) and related Farsight programs that have resulted in COTS technology being placed in numerous commercial and military avionics and vetronics applications.
The company is privately held and has approximately 90 employees as of 31DEC05.
