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Technology Stocks : S3 (A LONGER TERM PERSPECTIVE) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Herc who wrote (13475)	8/5/1999 1:51:00 PM
From: Chris Tomas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14577

Got this from a source on the Savage Tentex website: GX4 (good chance of/Confirmed..) - Using .18 some designs to go .13 (mobile? not in the short term, try 2001+) - Some high speed integrated memory on chip, external memory up to 64Mb(128 will serve no purpose). - Transform and lighting engine on chip! (confirmed with Xtreme release from S3) - Released at 175Mhz to go over 200Mhz (conservative, overclockable) - 4 texture pipelines(kinda like two Savage4's on chip) - ~15-20 Mtps triangle Setup engine (NV10 watch out) - S3TC (oh thats a secret!) - New image quality features (decent performance while supersampling (antialiasing)) - Dot product bumpmapping (enviroment bumpmapping a possibility when/if cross-licensed) - OpenGl 1.2/DirectX 7/Metal API support(on Win 98/2000 NT) (Heidi?) - Will not use the Savage name Possibilities: - Perhaps a cross licensed from 3dfx T-buffer (looking unlikely in the first GX4) - Increase maximum texture size to 4096x4096 - Linux/Unix support. - Many features forceable by drivers - Dual head type functions (TV out?) And pricing will start at >$40 a chip And will appear in board ~$150-$200. Availability late 99 early 2000. Savage4 Xtreme will continue into 2000 to fill the low end market which it will probably find a place as a minimum game requirement for games in 2000-2.