STG-3001
The STG-3001 was a cancelled graphics chip under development by SGS-Thomson Microelectronics (now STMicroelectronics)'s Graphics Business Unit in 1996. It was cancelled around June 1996 in favour of continuing the Strategic Collaboration Agreement with NVIDIA to develop the NV3 (which ST called the STG-3000). Presumably, considering Nvidia's dire financial straits at the time of the STG-3001 project, it was considered as a backup option in case of the bankruptcy of Nvidia.
In addition, ST will direct its Graphics BusinessUnit ("GBU") engineering resources to the development of the Core Technology (including the STG3000 emulated NV3) as a priority over ST's
development of the STG3001 or any other GBU project.—Strategic Collaboration Agreement[1]
It also mentions a die-shrunk or optimised "STG3000" (possibly similar to the distinction between STG-2000 and NV1) but this does not appear to have been seriously pursued by either company.
- ↑ https://contracts.onecle.com/nvidia/sgs.collab.1993.11.10.shtml (Strategic Collaboration Agreement between SGS-Thomson Microelectronics Inc. and Nvidia, Inc., November 10, 1993, amended June 5, 1996)