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To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (61830)	6/9/1999 12:02:00 PM
From: MileHigh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

So you think Sony is a big player in the PC market? That's news to me. And yes, my light bulb often goes off at the most inopportune times! <gg> MileHigh

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (61830)	6/9/1999 12:11:00 PM
From: benwood	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Re: gaming and graphics (and memory architecture). My take on the graphics industry (for PCs) is that there is so much competitive pressure and pricing pressure that they must go with whatever gives them the most bang for the buck (but no more than 1 buck). This article, which I ran across on the 3dfx thread a few days ago, indicates interest by graphics vendors in Double-Data-Rate SDRAM rather (or in addition to?) RDRAM. I would expect the graphics industry to go with the cheapest alternative providing the necessary memory bandwidth regardless of the upgrade paths for the selected memory architecture since the shelflife of their next products will be only 6-9 months anyway. If DDR SDRAM (or whatever they choose) doesn't meet their price/performance requirements with the following generation boards, they'll simply jettison it and use whatever works better. Pricing considerations are paramount in the upgrade (or OEM) graphics board business thanks to the fall in PC prices and the revised expectations of consumers. techweb.com BTW, a typical next gen 3D board (next October through March) should have 32MB standard, so it's not a trivial amount of memory.