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To: Sam Sara who wrote (7673)	9/25/1998 11:27:00 AM
From: Michael Linov	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16960

Project X has no optimized 3d graphic pipeline, it's more of a general purpose CPU (with a feature list that is implemented largely in software, not hardware). While it will certainly have the power do do things like set-top dvd decoding and basic gaming, its performance really won't be spectacular. The strength (and weakness) of Project-X is that almost all the features are implemented in software (rather than the much faster dedicated pipelined hardware). For instance, a 3dfx chip does the equivalent of 50 billion floating point ops per sec (through its pipeline, according to 3dfx). This makes Project-X Cheaper, but not faster. Again, in my opinion, this will go the way of 3do, CD-i, though it might succeed as an embedded controller in mid-high end DVD players.