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Story: Taking graphics technology to Mars

Nvidia is a great company and has earned its place among the leading graphics hardware companies.

I do feel however, that naming Nvidia the "dominant force in PC graphics" might be a little extreme.

Here in Canada, we have a company called ATI Technologies that has always been a leader in this field and has, over the last few quarters, displaced Nvidia as the world's largest graphic chip supplier. They have also won away from Nvidia, the title of the world's fastest graphics chip-set for PC games, and the contract to supply graphics technology for Microsoft's next generation X-box.

By these measures, if there is a dominant force in PC graphics, it's ATI, not Nvidia.

BTW, the special super-high resolution image sensors that are the front-end for the Mars rovers' fancy graphics were fabricated in Canada by a firm just outside Montreal.

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