Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Advanced Micro Devices - Moderated (AMD) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (62816)	11/8/2001 12:54:55 AM
From: Jim McMannis	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

RE:"Nice try, Jim. It was Rambus that killed Timna, not the concept itself. Yes, Rambus killed it too but I doubt it could have kept up in MHz...I think it was set to debut at 600-700 Mhz... RE:"Had Timna been designed with SDRAM from the start, it would have been a runaway success." I strongly doubt that... In the end, Timna was nothing but a knee-jerk reation to MediaGx by Andy Grove...

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (62816)	11/8/2001 11:00:12 AM
From: dale_laroy	Respond to of 275872

>It's good enough for my current computer at home, not to mention the last three computers I built for friends of mine.< The fact is that, had Cyrix continued to shrink it, MediaGX would be good enough for most users. Most users I know do not play 3D games and therefore don't need a 3D graphics accelerator. For the long run, the winner at the low end will probably be SiS. The SiS315 is no where near the performance of nVidia's offerings, but it is a match for the Radeon VE and will probably eventually be incorporated into SiS chipsets for both P4 and Hammer.