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To: Sleeperz who wrote (7524)	9/22/1998 5:00:00 PM
From: Simon Cardinale	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

CR Lum DIMD recently bought Micronics. So DIMD could easily sell Mobos that integrated audio/graphics/modems/system all onto the Mobo from whoever is offering such integrated chips. IE, Intel, SIS, CYRIX, Then when other OEMs and Mobo makers start doing that, what happens to nVidia and TDFX.?? If you mean an integrated CPU with sound/video/modem/normal CPU functions, I don't think that this is practical. It could be done, but it would be more expensive than doing the chips separately. Perhaps for the very lowest end sound/video it might be different, but 3Dfx and their competitors are competing with high-performance chipsets that make too much heat to integrate, with a product cycle that makes even motherboard integration tricky, let alone cpu integration. If you're talking about separate chips on the motherboard, motherboard makers buy chips from ATI (who also produce their own board) so I don't see this as a problem whether TDFX makes their own boards or not. Simon