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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (7443)	9/20/1998 9:19:00 PM
From: Simon Cardinale	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16960

Questions for 3Dfx 1) With CPUs being the biggest bottleneck in high-end 3D acceleration, will 3Dfx increase the performance gap in 1999 with some variety of onboard geometry acceleration (to take part of the load off the CPU)? Are 3Dfx's competitors doing the same? 2) Will geometry acceleration be the most important distinguishing characteristic for 3Dfx chipsets, or qill "feature" additions (like full screen anti-aliasing, lighting/shadow effects, etc.) be more important? 3) Is the Banshee capable of single card SLI? 4) What is 3Dfx doing to guard against the kind of inventory backlog that killed 3Q earnings? Simon