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To: dale_laroy who wrote (50301)	8/8/2001 1:40:19 AM
From: wanna_bmw	Respond to of 275872

Dale, Re: "The same statement could have been made with regards to Intel's support chipset business in 1997." The irony here is that Intel's chipset business has gone in the complete opposite direction from where the skeptics thought it should go. Intel's i810 and i815 chipsets offered cheap integrated graphics and a moderate feature set, yet they were the most successful chipsets of the past two years in terms of volumes and demand. They were never great performers, but they've offered large volumes at low costs, with stable drivers, and that happened to be exactly what the low cost and mainstream markets were looking for. Meanwhile, others swore that high performance DDR and discrete graphics performance was the real answer to chipset superiority, but so far 2001 has proven that people are not interested in the small performance gains due to DDR, nor are the low cost markets interested in discrete graphics when integrated graphics offers performance that is good enough for most consumers. Some might call this foresight, and others might call it luck, but data shows that emphasis continues to be on the processor, and not the other supporting features of the system. This may point to the i845 as being just as successful a chipset than the i810 and i815, despite it's initial offering with slower SDRAM memory. wanna_bmw