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To: Patrick Grinsell who wrote (9084)	11/18/1998 9:23:00 PM
From: Eric Howard	Respond to of 16960

Patrick, I am sure that they are going to have spin the masks a couple more time to fix any bugs they find, shorten critical paths and potentially re-layout parts of the chip to reduce area and or power. The fact that they got working silicon so early is good but I am sure they still have quite a bit of work to do. Since they are using one design for both price points they need to make sure that the average target frequency is as high as possible for the chips coming out of the fab. They could also have hot spots on the die and other reliability issues they need to look at. I think they are still quite a ways from volume production. I would bet that the consumer boards are not on shelves until Q2. They will hopefully start to ship product by the end of Q1 but I am not sure what quantity. Eric

To: Patrick Grinsell who wrote (9084)	11/18/1998 9:25:00 PM
From: Chip Anderson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

Comdex is now over for me (yippee!). I'm headed to the airport in an hour. Today's TDFX news is more limited: Dennis Fong ("Thresh"), the #1 Quake/Quake2 player in the world was at the booth today as part of a Diamond Monster SLI promotion. It generated a lot of interest as he kicked random people's butt in special 1-on-1 matches. I got to talk with him for about 30 minutes and had a great conversation. He is a _really_ great guy. Totally goes against the stereo-type of the average gamer. Got some autographs and photos. No, I didn't challenge him head-to-head. FWIW, Thresh has a great new website called FiringSquad. Check it out at firingsquad.com Sun, I looked for interested game controller thingies today. There were lots of "standard" gizmos from mice to trackballs to tons of force-feedback driving wheels. Microsoft was showing there "tilt" gamepad thing. Kensington has the "Web Mouse" (-from-hell) which won a PC Week award. Mouse with a touchpad and about 20 programmable buttons. It took pictures of several examples and will post them tomorrow. Chip "Sunny Seattle" Anderson