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To: FJB who wrote (26211)	4/23/1998 1:33:00 PM
From: Investor A	Respond to of 33344

The 3D/FPU intense programs coming to Internet? According to Microsoft's Eric Engstrom, one of the technology's architects, "Chrome will ship with an enormous library of interactive 3D data types enabling web designers to create multimedia-rich web pages that download in a fraction of the time it takes standard JPEGs or GIF animations." bootnet.com Now, read the following how MXi fits its role for Chrome: MXi reported from CPU Central: cpu-central.com The MXi will feature the next-generation Cayenne core, and the MXi is strengthened by a dual-issue, fully pipelined floating point and MMX unit with 15 new multimedia floating point instructions. The processor also integrates the latest system technology, including SDRAM control, AGP and consumer-quality DVD playback, onto the processor. With its low memory latency and industry-leading memory bandwidth - greater than 2GBytes per second - the MXi is expected to significantly outperform competing non-integrated AGP solutions. "MXi will deliver a quantum leap in 3D, DVD and multimedia performance in an affordable, two-chip solution - just add memory," said Steve Tobak, vice president of corporate and channel marketing, Cyrix. "This chip will also provide the industry's highest memory bandwidth, resulting in AGP performance twice that of the Pentium II processor." 3D Graphics Features and Performance The MXi will incorporate a complete list of state-of-the-art 3D graphics features, including bi-linear and tri-linear filtering, Alpha blending/fog, Gouraud shading, MIP mapping and Z buffering. Additionally, the MXi will be D3D and OpenGL compliant for mainstream software compatibility. With respect to performance, the MXi has a 3D rendering capability of greater than 2 million triangles per second with a fill rate of 120 million pixels per second. In summary, MXi will deliver integrated, high-performance 3D processing with all the features of much more expensive multi-chip solutions. It sounds to me that M$FT is developing an internet killer application for Cyrix MXi. The question remains the same. When should we be able to buy one? :( Fuchi ... who loves Cyrix's innovations Please support the PC industry & protect consumer interest techstocks.com users.aol.com