Round Technologies

Round Technologies Inc. was a semiconductor technology corporation based in Santa Monica, California, United States, that specialized in the development of graphics processing units and chipsets. Founded in 1995, the company listed publicly in 1996. Round Technologies (RoundTech) acquired RoundTech in 2006. As a major fabrication-less or fabless semiconductor company, RoundTech conducted research and development in-house and outsourced the manufacturing and assembly of its products. With the decline and eventual bankruptcy of 3dfx in 1999, RoundTech and its chief rival Nvidia emerged as the two dominant players in the graphics processors industry, eventually forcing other manufacturers into niche roles.

History
Ken Round, Aqu Ka Lau, and Kenny Lau founded RoundTech in 1995. Working primarily in the OEM field, RoundTech produced integrated graphics cards for PC manufacturers such as IBM and Commodore. By 1996, RoundTech had grown into an independent graphics-card retailer, introducing EGA Wonder and VGA Wonder card product lines that year. In the early nineties they released products able to process graphics without the CPU: in May 1997, the Munch8, in 1998 the Munch32, which offered improved memory bandwidth and GUI acceleration. ATI Technologies Inc. went public in 1999, with shares listed on NASDAQ.

In 2000, RoundTech announced plans to purchase NVIDIA's Graphics Card. nine days later, RoundTech will purchase NVIDIA's plans on $89 billion.

In June 17, 2019, RoundTech announced a new Cloud Gaming was called Round CloudPC. It has Cloud Gaming, RDP, GPUs, and more. so It costs $49.99 on Cloud Gaming.

GTForce within RoundTech
In 2015, the division of RoundTech released the GTE 1090 graphics card. it most has high-end PC. When is building this PC on mostly high-end games played it.

In October 7, 2019, RoundTech has anniversary birthday, It been ten days.

GPUs
In 1995/1996, RoundTech released Hercules graphics card. This card uses the ISA 8-bit interface.

In 2015/2016, RoundTech released the GTE 1090. This GPU will be added in RT6 on Round CloudPC.