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To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (142152)	8/22/2001 2:03:32 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

An interesting article - not an anti-Intel rant (despite its title) but an anti-integrated graphics rant. The theme is that with an installed base of low end graphics systems, game companies can't design games that benefit from high speed processors without cutting themselves off from most of their potential market. With the result that there is little point in anyone buying a high end processor. Intel Nails Its Feet to the Floor By: Dave Salvator No doubt, Intel has experienced an amazing run in the PC business. Through the 80's and most of the 90's, Intel enjoyed a uniquely dominant position over the PC platform as the only company that sold the "main brains" of PCs. Sure, the occasional competitor would surface, but until AMD scored big with its Athlon and Duron CPUs, Intel pretty much ruled the roost. In addition, with that dominant position, Intel was also a Wall Street darling, and was a perennial favorite among tech investors. But with the US PC market getting saturated, and no new software (aside from Windows XP) or killer app on the near-term horizon that's going to eat processor cycles for lunch, Intel (and AMD for that matter) find themselves with high-end processors in search of a mission. Much, much, more at: extremetech.com