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 : Creative Labs (CREAF) A New Hope - -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Fred Fahmy who wrote (49)	4/17/1998 6:31:00 PM
From: dougjn	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 76

It does indeed. Great post. From what I've seen, 3DFX's 2nd gen chip is essentially on allocation to just two add on video board makers, Diamond and Creative. Seems like at least a really good beginning. Whether they can keep that area sweat is another matter, right? It's not clear to me however what their edge is in DVD. It's a standard that has taken years to work out and is very well known, given Hollywood's software piracy concerns and threats to withhold product. Haven't all the Japanese consumer electronics manufacturing and marketing behemoths got this product pretty squarely in their sights? If Creative doesn't have significant patent or copyright protection, what does it use to win against Sony, Matsushita/Panasonic, Toshiba, etc? (In the sound card situation they provided a product regarded as too small niche for years, and when everyone woke up, they had the standard that the game etc. software was writing to, with legacy titles which board buyers wanted supported. Pretty different from DVD, no? More like CD-Rom?) Doug