AVault has interviewed Paul Crossley, PR manager at S3 about their recent acquisition of Diamond Multimedia (story). Amongst the questions answered is this key one that has been on everyone's mind since the announcement:

Will this purchase affect Diamond's current line of graphics accelerators? Specifically, will Diamond continue to sell and support cards based on other companies' chipsets, such as NVIDIA?

This will not affect Diamond's current line of graphics accelerators as we look to sustain an ongoing relationship with suppliers such as NVIDIA. If you analyze at Diamond's selection of graphics products, they chose NVIDIA for the high-end mainstream and S3 for the volume mainstream. Currently, both lines are doing quite well in their respective segments.