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To: PFRice who wrote (47461)	1/27/1999 1:13:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1580253

Lawrence - Re: " 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 " I guess we'll just have to wait for these graphics chip companies to put on of their chips in 50 million Katmai boxes that Intel may sell over the next year or so. Paul

To: PFRice who wrote (47461)	1/27/1999 1:17:00 AM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 1580253

Lawrence, 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. I agree completely. Microprocessors are inherently poor at doing calculations on large data sets. On the other hand, graphics geometry pipelines can achieve extremely high compute bandwidths. Complicated scenes slow dramatically in software based implementations. Scumbria