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To: QuietWon who wrote (13499)	6/26/1999 10:25:00 PM
From: Ben Wu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16960

creative interview regarding recent events. REALLY good comments on the benefits/pitfalls of a vertical vs. horizontal company. contains thinly veiled references to 3dfx in the article. ga-source.com PS. QuietWon (who is anything but) please keep ATI spam to ATI. Posting this same message to 3dfx, S3, nVidia, and 3dlabs doesn't do much for your case, and in fact it is pretty annoying. Plus if you have been reading this board AT ALL you would've realized your reference to that article had already been posted. rebuttal time: 1) First of all, computer manufacturers use ALL TYPES of chips. DELL uses ATI, 3dfx, and nVidia chips. Compaq uses S3 and ATI. NEC/PackBell a combination of chips too. 2) I'll believe an ATI set-top when i see it. one thing to say, one thing to do. 3) HDTV-PC board? won't see one for maybe two or three years. how many people do you think can afford HDTV sets? why would ATI slap on the feature and add cost to it's boards when nobody uses it? it won't. and watching HDTV on a PC? that wouldn't be too hard to implement. Just a receiver and a different uP would do the trick. (i would like to say that 3dfx has one in the works, it probably does, but 3dfx NEVER says nor admits to anything, unlike other companies) 4) 3dfx already has a flat panel division (picked it up with STBI). So there. 5) ATI is 3dfx's target. Being king of the hill also means you have exposed flanks (hehe, picked that up from the above article). Come back in 6 months and see if ATI hasn't been losing market share to 3dfx, CREAF, DIMD, S3, and all those other board makers. 6) and UoW grads are just like any other tech grad - in high demand. So save it please. Plus it's not where you get your degree, it's what you do with it that counts.