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To: Eric Howard who wrote (10245)1/26/1999 3:24:00 AM
From: Chip Anderson  Read Replies (2) of 16960
 
There's definitely some revolutionary stuff in that article:

"Well, what little we do know about the board is that it will require the use of an (as yet unreleased) Intel Camino chipset. It will also be specifically designed and optimized for Camino in order to take full advantage of AGP 4X texturing just in time to compete head to head with nVidia's .25micron TNT2."

Up until now 3Dfx has scoffed at the idea of ever doing AGP texturing. Looks like the marketers won that battle. BTW, at Comdex, TonyT did tell me that they would have a big announcement to correspond with Intel's launch of 4x AGP - looks like this is it.

Still, this is no "Rampage" - just an incremental improvement on an incremental improvement. Not unexpected really, but not something that will vault 3Dfx back into a super-dominant position.

Some will probably wonder: "Will this announcement cannibalize some sales of the (still unreleased) V3-3000?" The answer is "No" because it will require a whole new motherboard in order to work. This is probably an OEM targeted part and will give OEMs a choice of V3-2000 for the cheaper market segments and V3-4000 for the premium systems.

Will it derail TNT2? That's the $64,000 question. Lack of 32-bit color is still a big problem.

Chip
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