NeoMagic
NeoMagic was founded in the summer of 1993 in Santa Clara / California and originally specialized in multimedia chips. At that time still belonged graphics chips for notebook sector this category.
NeoMagic was the first company, thanks to their MAGIC technology (memory and logic to German as memory and logic) larger amounts of DRAM in the graphics chip integrated and dealt directly as a bottleneck in chip design.
NeoMagic chip, the fastest and most economical graphics chips for notebooks were from 1996 to early 2000. However, they had the disadvantage that they had no 3D capabilities, so that you decided with the rising popularity of 3D accelerators in the notebook sector, from this withdraw market and instead concentrated on SoCs.
Overall, NeoMagic has sold more than 22 million graphics chips.