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To: Pierre-X who wrote (5317)	7/14/1998 2:05:00 PM
From: Mark Timko	Respond to of 16960

I know he got to Cyrix after they started the whole 5x86 and 6x86 naming convention. I wouldn't be surprised if he was the one who stopped their use. I would argue that the P6 would be successful regardless of who did the marketing. It doesn't take much work to get a captive audience of OEMs to jump on the next Intel processor bandwagon. Now marketing Cyrix parts to top tier OEMs who want to remain friendly with Intel is a different story. I sure he had to earn his paycheck in that job. I would make a guess that he jumped to NVIDIA based on an offer of a lot of founders stock and the expectation that they were going public this year. If they hold off on the IPO much longer, maybe 3dfx could hire him away 8^).