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To: Alex Balazs who wrote (2450)	11/23/1997 2:33:00 PM
From: DRBES	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6843

When is CeBIT ? Regards, DARBES

To: Alex Balazs who wrote (2450)	11/23/1997 2:34:00 PM
From: StockMan	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6843

Alexis, Re - The only thing I can see is lower cost for an OEM to produce a "3D System" Rumor has it that AMD is going to price their K6's above the pentium's. Jerry (Who cares for the consumer by lowering prices!!)

To: Alex Balazs who wrote (2450)	11/23/1997 3:06:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6843

Alex, <I still don't see what advantage it has over an add-in board.. The only thing I can see is lower cost for an OEM to produce a "3D System",> You have answered this question yourself. There is no economical reason to move all 3-D pipeline stages to a totally self-contained 3D processor - the CPU could do some usefull job besides interrupt processing from a mouse. Such a 3-D system is more "balanced". Another reason is that when leaving the geometry processor at the CPU side, you probably have more flexibility in 3D-scene generation. Regards, Ali

To: Alex Balazs who wrote (2450)	11/23/1997 3:27:00 PM
From: Pravin Kamdar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 6843

Alex, RE: I still don't see what advantage it has over an add-in board like the Voodoo2... My understanding is that the processor typically does the polygon vertice geometry transformations and the 3D graghics card does the rendering (filling the triangles in with textured pixels). Currently, processors can't keep fast 3D cards supplied with transformed polygons. The new floating point instructions added to the K6 3D, especially the MAC (multiply and add in one cycle), should allow it to supply fast 3D cards with all the polygons they can eat. This is really the same reason why the performance of your favorite 3D card scales with processor speed. Pravin.