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To: stribe30 who wrote (35652)	4/13/2001 10:37:44 AM
From: fyodor_	Respond to of 275872

Scott: That Kyro II looks like it could be a hot competitive product.. if Nvidia's trying to bad mouth it is any indication.. the initial benchmarks of it is exciting a lot of hardware gaming geeks. Awwww!! Come on! You know you want that $600 GeForce3... to go along with that $600 P4.... to go along with that $600 worth of Rambus memory... You know you want it ;-) Seriously though, I was a huge fan of NVIDIA from the second they launched the original Riva TNT. There was zero question in my mind that they were doing things the right way: They were going with a single-chip approach (3dfx used multiple chips - and that didn't even include 2D!) and they were pushing an open API (OpenGL). Lately, however, they seem to be suffering from a classic "tech" case of "resting on their laurels". Definite symptoms include engineering guys designing lots of fancy, expensive (die-size wise) stuff - and getting management to ok it! - while not solving the fundamental bottlenecks to performance. Not coming out with a card featuring some form of embedded DRAM was a huge mistake and it could turn out to be an expensive one. -fyo