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To: Simon Cardinale who wrote (7026)9/9/1998 10:42:00 PM
From: Waldeen  Read Replies (1) of 16960
 

Simon,

Thanks for the discussion of SLI! To me basically SLI is the first
hint that the video designers are realizing that Graphics are
"inherently parallel". Inherently parallel means that each
'processor' addition increases the speed up proportionally.
Patrick hit on in his previous post. Lots of tasks are not
inherently parallel, and the speed-up decreases as processors
increase. The region-based rendering versus immediate based
rendering as Sellers talks about in his latest interview
posted here seems to me to be a bottle neck though. So it
appears that SLI to me above a few processors is going to start
being rendering limited? This is speculation on my part and
would have to be answered by others.

Yes, think SLI Banshee would have quite an impact. Am desperately
wanting to know if the 3dfx roadmap includes such a thing! There's
a lot of technology issues touched on by this thread and then
there are investment issues. SLI Banshee falls clearly as
an investment issue to me, as this company has already demonstrated
the technology with V2. I do top down investing, and look for where
the future is going and eliminate any companies that don't have the tools. IMO with the graphics companies lowering their chips to
commodity prices, graphics will be "parallel" very soon. The
chips are getting cheap enough to include more than one per board
and in so doing possibly increase sales volume enough to compensate
for the declining margins in this business. Maybe.

This may or may not be a correct interpretation of the future of
this business. But applying it leaves only two companies that
could possibly stumble in the right direction: 3dfx and Nvidia
with Twin Texels (TNT) which is essentially a parallel approach.
Keeps me totally out of investing in SIII and frankly looks
to me as if ATY is going to look like SIII in a year if they
don't feed their pipeline of future products properly. There is
still a lot of potential market share for 3dfx with Banshee,
and if played right could be more than most think today IMO.

thanks for your response,

Waldeen
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