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To: Pravin Kamdar who wrote (94637)	2/22/2000 6:52:00 PM
From: Epinephrine	Read Replies (1) of 1574024

RE: <equal to or better than the GeForce...if Athlon and the graphics processor are both to be fabbed in Dresden, shouldn't they be integrated on the same die> Pravin, If AMD did all the work to integrate a GigaPixel solution with the Athlon core on a single die for the XBox as you suggest, and the GigaPixel technology is as good as you suggest then wouldn't that integrated CPU be ideal (given the right motherboard and slot support) for a low end general market system on a chip solution. It sounds like that would be a heck of a competitor to Timna? Disclaimer: I understand that's a lot of IF's and this is just speculation. :o) Thanks, Epinephrine Another thought (this is an after the fact edit) Maybe getting access to, and even rights to, the GigaPixel IP is part of the benefit that AMD would get from providing the low margin CPUs for the XBox. Then they could make up for the razor thin margins on the XBox, by selling low end system on a chip CPUs which would run better because of Microsoft optimizations for the XBox.

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