Comment 5 for bug 1956128

The Mach chips in terms of server boards were sold well into the late 00's as a competitor to the Matrox(MGA) G200 chips in that space of which were sold until only a few years ago in fairly standard servers. The Matrox G550 came out in 2005 and their PCIe portfolio is still upgraded and sold to this day for digital signage, of which many devices are running Ubuntu. The Rage Fury Maxx series and Voodoo 5 are explicitly post 2000 and competed against each other and the Geforce series. Nouveau which is included to this day supports the original NV4 TNT. The TNT series came out in 1998.

Silicon Motion chips are still produced and sold to this very day in an M.2 package for 2D output in server and embedded scenarios. The VIA VX900 came out in 2010 (OpenChrome). The NeoMagic NM2380 is post 2000 and was famously used in the Sony VAIO PCG-XG18/19 series. The Savage 2000 wasn't even retail available until mere days before 2000, selling obviously and mostly within that decade block.

There is no rule being followed here in terms of sales or production that has anything to do with actual dates, to be clear.

There is no reason any package above or ATI should be required instead of recommended in terms of packages given that the default is to install recommended packages and even the minimal install will do so.