GA-Hardware has posted a Q&A with Alf Covey of 3dfx interactive.
Q1: As it was well known, your new chip and cards - eventually dubbed VSA-100 and Voodoo 4/5, respectively - had originally been developed under the alias Napalm. Was it because you felt that, with nVidia´s TNT series available on the market for some time, you´d better demilitarize the market and retain the good old Voodoo brand name instead? Or you had other incentives as well?Read more
A: Napalm was just a project development name, we never intended to market any product under that name. Just about any computer product in development is going to get one of those. We decided to stick with the Voodoo name for VSA-100 products because people recognize the name Voodoo and have come to expect cutting edge graphics performance when they hear it. The Voodoo5 carries on the tradition by delivering exactly that.
