Club 3D
Dutch company
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
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.
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.
2016 - First to market worldwide with the Displayport 1.2 to HDMI 2.0 Active Adapters
2016 - Stopped manufacturing graphics cards.
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