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To: JAG who wrote (13473)	6/25/1999 11:16:00 AM
From: Ben Wu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

no longer just an "option" 3dfx.com Gateway Standardizes on 3dfx Voodoo3 3000G for Performance 500 Systems SAN JOSE, Calif. – June 24, 1999 – 3dfx Interactive® Inc. (NASDAQ: TDFX) today announced that Gateway (NYSE: GTW) has selected the Voodoo3™ 3000G graphics accelerator as its standard video card for GatewayTM Performance 500 signature desktop PCs. The news follows 3dfx Interactive's announcement last month that Gateway is offering an OEM version of Voodoo3 3000 graphics accelerator, the Voodoo3 3000G, as a Gateway Performance series option. Gateway now delivers the Voodoo3 3000G as the standard video card for Performance 500 systems. “It is exciting to see Voodoo3 become an integral part of the Gateway Performance 500 line,” said Shane Long, senior vice president of worldwide sales at 3dfx. “Gateway is now offering the industry's hottest-selling graphics technology as a standard feature of its high-performance systems.” Designed for true game enthusiasts and performance-minded consumers, the 16MB AGP Voodoo3 3000G board generates 7 million triangles and 333 Megatexels per second. The Voodoo3 3000G also includes DVD hardware assist, dual 32-bit internal rendering, 8-bit palletized textures, programmable exponential fog tables, Gouraud shading, a full 128-bit 2D accelerator, and support for Glide®, DirectX®, and OpenGL®. About 3dfx Interactive 3dfx Interactive develops high-performance, cost-effective 3D media processors, software and related technology that are designed to enable a highly immersive, interactive and realistic 3D experience across interactive electronic entertainment platforms – personal computers, coin-operated arcade systems and location-based entertainment. Current 3dfx Interactive products include the Voodoo family of accelerator chip sets, Voodoo2™, Voodoo Graphics®, Voodoo Banshee™ and the new Voodoo3. 3dfx Interactive, Glide and Voodoo Graphics are registered trademarks and Voodoo, Voodoo2, Voodoo3 and Voodoo Banshee are trademarks of 3Dfx Interactive. Gateway and the Gateway stylized logo are trademarks of Gateway, Inc. All other names may be trademarks of their respective holders.