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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices

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To: Profits who wrote (27692)1/7/1998 12:28:00 AM
From: esecurities(tm)  Read Replies (1) of 1580483
 
Why doesn't AMD acquire 3Dfx (TDFX) ref/K6 3D, as a preemptive strike insuring? AMDs dominance of the evolving (Sony/Nintendo/Sega) console to PC gaming platform and license the hell out of the resulting combination technologies establishing a $<300 killer PC based gaming console Standard and $<1000 virtual reality graphics/sound/...home game simulator pods...

reference link: January 1998 issue of boot Magazine bootnet.com "Picking the Fastest Hardware Pony-Software Devs Gamble on New Technology "...AMD has, to its credit, convinced the folks at Digital Anvil...to support the chip [K6+3D Socket 7 procesor]..." and Feature Article License to KILL After holding its own in the third spot for years, AMD surged ahead in the race for top CPU by stealing Cyrix's coveted second ranking with the K6 "Pentium-killer". Now AMD has its eyes set on the leader of the pack and looks to school Intel with secret weapon - the K6+3D..."
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