For evidence, there is Dell's acquisition of Alienware last year followed by Hewlett-Packard's purchase of Voodoo Computers. The specter of the top two PC makers snapping up the two hottest brands ...

In 1996, the 3Dfx VooDoo VGA chipset changed computer graphics forever. Because of the high cost of memory, most of the boards had only 4 MB of memory — which seemed a lot back then. However ...