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To: timbur who wrote (4619)	6/23/1998 3:49:00 PM
From: Matt Webster	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16960

Here's another really dumb question: Why doesn't/didn't TDFX take Voodoo2 as is and add the new 128-bit core, thus making Super Banshee? This seems a lot easier and simpler than anything else. Obviously, leave the second Texel unit, etc. And another question: how many texel units can you have before performance gains rapidly diminish? Are 4 texel units possible? Wouldn't a 0.25 micron Voodoo2 core with 4 texel units be a cheap workup and be way ahead of anything the competition is doing? Seems like we are not making real breakthroughs in core concepts but are benefitting from cheap memory, lithography shrinks and cheap fab capacity as much as anything else. Matt