Intel 740, STB & Diamond...
The whole Gamecenter feature: The 411 on 3DG was a good read.
Sheds light on what Cube is up against. Particularly the way Creative & Diamond does business:
Start here: gamecenter.com
Some excerpts from this page:
gamecenter.com
STB Lightspeed 740
STB Systems can be expected to concentrate its Intel740 efforts on the OEM market, selling its Lightspeed 740 AGP card to system manufacturers such as Compaq, Gateway 2000, and Dell for integration into their products. Given the fact that AGP Computers has been in the market only about six months, there's not much of a retail market for add-on AGP cards.
The Lightspeed 740 will ship with 4MB of 100-MHz SGRAM frame buffer memory, but the card can be upgraded to 8MB to support higher resolutions. The Intel740's integrated 203-MHz DAC tops out at 1,600 by 1,200 resolution with 256 colors and a 75-Hz refresh rate. The card will rely on tapping system memory through the AGP bus for texture memory. STB did not announce pricing or availability.
Diamond Multimedia
Diamond announced its intention to manufacture an AGP graphics accelerator based on the Intel740 by the end of the second quarter, but didn't say much else. The company hasn't announced a product name, price, or configuration.
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