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To: Brad Patton who wrote (3376)	2/13/1998 4:21:00 PM
From: michael	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4679

this stock is turning out to be the DOG that everybody said it was. dropping a $1.00/week...looks like back to 6 in a few weeks

To: Brad Patton who wrote (3376)	2/13/1998 6:01:00 PM
From: lml	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 4679

Brad, Thanks for the links to the gamecenter.com articles. They were very informative. Here are the issues I think will be at play: Is the consumer gonna realize any better performance with the 12MB v. the 8MB card, & if so by how much? Assuming there is a difference in performance, will it merit the consumer spending the extra $70 for the CREAF 12MB card. What's the performance difference between the DIMD & CREAF 8MB cards, & is it enough to draw the consumer to the either card? What marketing gimicks will each Company pull out of its hat to notch that sale? Any thoughts would be appreciated.

To: Brad Patton who wrote (3376)	2/16/1998 4:02:00 PM
From: lml	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 4679

Brad or anyone, I still trying to figure the impact of entry of INTL's 740 chip into the graphics chip market upon board manufacturers. I find it curious why deals were announced with DIMD as well as STBI, but not CREAF. However, I came across this post in the CREAF thread: Message 3440274 I have read that TDFX will survive the INTL threat because its chipset is currently superior to the INTL740 chip, & has the engineering design expertise to stay ahead of INTL for the foreseeable future. But overtime, how can anyone compete with INTL? It seems at a minimum they will want a good piece of the market. Anyone care to comment on this? I particularly curious how all this plays out on the board manufacturers, because, IMHO, the chip is the key to a board's techinical performance. How will DIMD manage its relationship with TDFX v. INTL? Will product quality in the future suffer because of contractual obligations to incorporate a particular chip onto a specific line of graphic boards? Does it make sense for any of these graphic chip manufacturers to acquire a board maker in the future, given the optimal performance will always require a board configuration? All comments welcome. This board has been much too quiet of late.