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The History of the GPU - Eras and Environment Spawn the old MG Magnette inThis is the second book in a three part series that traces the development of the GPU, which is defined as a single chip with an integrated transform and lighting (T&L) capability. This feature previously was found in workstations as a stand alone chip that only performed geometry functions. Enabled by Moores law, the first era of GPUs began in the late 1990s. Silicon Graphics (SGI) introduced T&L first in 1996 with the Nintendo 64 chipset with