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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.

{{quote|In addition, ST will direct its Graphics Business
Unit ("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<ref>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)</ref>
}}

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.