Competing in the video card market is much like swimming in school of sharks. Each manufacturer has the potential to pack a potent punch, but the slightest sign of weakness can quickly incite a feeding frenzy. We’ve seen it time and again. S3 released the Savage 2000, which was inhibited by shoddy drivers and 3dfx’s promising Voodoo5 family succumbed to the GeForce2. Hercules encountered a similar predicament back in 1999, only Hercules’ problem was financial rather than technological. Guillemot quickly purchased the struggling company and turned it into a multimedia powerhouse. Even with Guillemot’s help however, Hercules has still encountered a few tense situations.