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To: Simon Cardinale who wrote (7557)	9/22/1998 5:54:00 PM
From: Sleeperz	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16960

If separate chips were cheaper than an integrated solution then Intel would not be making Celeron A chips to save a few bucks. Plop over to the Cyrix thread and Take a look at what Cyrix is planning on doing, a PC-on-a-chip the MXi. >>> 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. <<< Intel is the top seller of Pentium & PII system chipsets(TX, HX, LX, BX). When Intel integrates the graphics chips the OEMs will be more or less, forced to buy Intels version of the Integrated system/graphics chip regardless if its the best solution or not. Second tier oems will buy similiar solutions from VIA, SIS or Aopen. techweb.com >>>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. <<< I was talking about integrated function chips. System/Graphics & Audio/modem. Separate chips on a PCB has been done for the last several decades. As pricing pressures increase , the integration of functions increase. >>> 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.<<<