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To: Paul Engel who wrote (47405)	1/27/1999 1:04:00 AM
From: PFRice	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1580216

What I mean by this is that the competitive struggle between the graphics vendors is going to yield graphics boards/chips that will usurp more and more of the cpu's role as being the main differentiator of overall system performance. When you have a geometry-enabled $150 graphics card sucking up most all of the demanding compute tasks, its going to be harder to charge $575 for a Katmai in some market segments especially if that graphics card is able to execute those tasks at a significantly higher performance level than the Katmai.