It became an extension (and eventual successor) to the ATI Wonder series of cards.
It was essentially a clone of the IBM 8514/A with a few notable extensions such as Crystal fonts.
Being one of the first graphics accelerator chips on the market, the Mach8 did not have an integrated VGA core.
This increased the cost of ownership as one had to purchase two rather than one expansion card for graphics.
The Mach32 chip was the follow-up to the Mach8, which finally featured an integrated VGA core, true colour support and a 64-bit datapath to internal memory.