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Just sharing this link. Very interesting series.
https://www.electronicdesign.com/graphics-chip-chronicles

Table of contents :

- Introduction […]
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- Introduction

Volume 1

- NEC µPD7220 Graphics Display Controller: The first graphics processor chip
- EGA to VGA: The initiation of bit-mapped graphics and the chip clone wars
- Intel’s 82786 Intel’s First Discrete Graphics Coprocessor
- Texas Instruments TMS34010 and VRAM
- IBM's PGC and 8514/A
- IBM's VGA

Volume 2

- IBM's XGA
- Number Nine's Imagine 128
- Nvidia's Riva 128
- 3Dfx's Voodoo

Volume 3

- Microsoft's Talisman: The Graphics Chip That Never Was
- Artist Graphics GPX: Too Little Too Late
- Matrox MGA: The Longest-Produced Graphics Chip Ever
- AT&T Truevision’s Targa Set Standards Still Used Today

Volume 4

- Intel i740: Big Investments, Major Embarrassments
- HP’s Artist Chip: Highly-Integrated With The System in Mind
- The History of the Integrated Graphics Controller
- Nintendo 64: Breakthrough Design, Genuine Disruption

Volume 5

- Multi GPUs: A Story of Promise and Potential Failure
- S3 ViRGE: Trying for Virtual Reality Too Early
- ATI 3D Rage: One of the First "Free-D" Chips
- Geometry Engine: The Legendary Chip That Launched SGI

Volume 6

- 3DLabs: From Glint to Permedia
- Yamaha's YGY611: A Pioneer in 3D Graphics
- Nvidia’s Quadratic Processor: The NV1
- Nvidia's GeForce 256: The First Fully-Integrated GPU

Volume 7

- ATI’s Radeon 8500: First GPU With Hardware Tessellation
- Stellar's Short-Lived Run in 3D Graphics Processors
- Alphamosaic to Pi to Doom via Broadcom
- Tseng ET4000: Early Winner Falls Short on 3D

(According to the forum search engine, someone already talked about it here, but the link was broken)

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