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

To: Bill Lin who wrote (7139)	11/3/1997 2:17:00 PM
From: SidStock	Respond to of 14577

Bill, I thought Riva 128 bit nvidia is like 220 3D Winmarks. GX3 has to offer at least 2x performance of the Riva128 to take back the sockets S3 lost at STBI and DIMD to nVidia. If it is only the same performance as you believe, then what compelling reason is there to switch back to S3 for the major card vendors? Its not easy to switch chip suppliers. nVidia offered 2-3x performance over GX2 and that was probably the compelling reason that DIMD & STBI dumped S3. As for Vortex, I thought this was supposed to be a more high-end graphics architecture to compete with the pure 3D playerss TDDDF, TDFX and Lockheed Real3D. I believe GJ spoke of a brand new architecture in development since the Virge had basically run out of steam. This I took as the Vortex (ie different than the Virge ?X? naming scheme). Sid