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To: Eric Howard who wrote (10245)	1/26/1999 3:24:00 AM
From: Chip Anderson	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16960

There's definitely some revolutionary stuff in that article: "Well, what little we do know about the board is that it will require the use of an (as yet unreleased) Intel Camino chipset. It will also be specifically designed and optimized for Camino in order to take full advantage of AGP 4X texturing just in time to compete head to head with nVidia's .25micron TNT2." Up until now 3Dfx has scoffed at the idea of ever doing AGP texturing. Looks like the marketers won that battle. BTW, at Comdex, TonyT did tell me that they would have a big announcement to correspond with Intel's launch of 4x AGP - looks like this is it. Still, this is no "Rampage" - just an incremental improvement on an incremental improvement. Not unexpected really, but not something that will vault 3Dfx back into a super-dominant position. Some will probably wonder: "Will this announcement cannibalize some sales of the (still unreleased) V3-3000?" The answer is "No" because it will require a whole new motherboard in order to work. This is probably an OEM targeted part and will give OEMs a choice of V3-2000 for the cheaper market segments and V3-4000 for the premium systems. Will it derail TNT2? That's the $64,000 question. Lack of 32-bit color is still a big problem. Chip coolhistory.com

To: Eric Howard who wrote (10245)	1/28/1999 12:59:00 PM
From: timbur	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

3Dfx on V3 4000 (Clarification) Ripped from VoodooExtreme (http://www.voodooextreme.com) Also thanks to Gimpy for sending me an email that he received back from 3Dfx's meat-popsicle, Brian Bruning, regarding some of the statement's in our bud Sharky's V3 bit yesterday. Dig it: 'Yes, Alex took our strong Intel partnering a bit too far. Voodoo 3 4000 will certainly be timed and executed with Intel's upcoming AGP4x chipset and next-gen CPUs but it by NO means requires it. In fact, we've designed the entire Voodoo 3 product family to scale very, very well even on Celeron and the entire range of AMD processors. AGP is so closely associated with the latest from Intel that the message of support for AMD and lower end Intel CPUs sometimes get lost. But the hearts and minds of those gamers don't get lost with us. No fear, all Voodoo 3 products scale very well on all technologies from Intel and AMD. Brian P. Bruning 3Dfx Interactive Developer Relations Manager'