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To: Jeff Lins who wrote (9180)	11/22/1998 11:00:00 PM
From: Michael G. Potter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

I'm not sure where you get the "six months till V3". Everything I've read says commercial shipments in Q2. Could be a little earlier, but I'm thinking 4 months. That means that Q1 is Banshee and the last V2 sales. Banshee will depend on Gateway and ATi and nVidia will come on strong with their chips which both are better than Banshee. Q2 next year looks ok, but I want consistent earnings, not boom/bust. Michael

To: Jeff Lins who wrote (9180)	11/22/1998 11:06:00 PM
From: Patrick Grinsell	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

BTW, I understand that they don't have the time/resources to get 32 bpp color in the V3, but whether it is useful or not, it is the biggest strike against TDFX in virtually EVERY review out there. And hard core gamers- our best customers- are aware of this...and the fact that our first implementation will likely be a year after nVidia...boy that makes me mad. Well here's one thing we can agree on. I don't believe 32 bpp or 32 MB is that big of a leap. It actually takes extra processing effort to dither down the result than just spit it out 32 bpp and 16 MB is just an artificial limitation. Rewriting glide to handle these things may have been a problem though if the 16 MB and 16 bpp are built into Glide. I think 3dfx may have been trying to differentiate V3 from Rampage which will have these additions, and wanted to kick out the quickest thing to market. ATTENTION 3DFX: If you want to call yourself a content company then ACT LIKE IT! Listen to the developers instead of pimping your old technology and making excuses for it. Your name can only take you so far. How do you expect developers to provide content for your hardware when they think your hardware is obsolete!