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To: telebob who wrote (10534)	2/5/1999 5:58:00 PM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 16960

3Dfx will do even better as it brings 3D into main stream. I've already discussed this with the company and that is their position. The reason is that no amount of CPU integration can replace a dedicated graphics processor. Some of the low end cards will suffer, though. The katmai will do for 3D graphics, what software emulation does for other things. It brings it within reach. But if you really want it, you will buy a hardware piece to do the job. 'hope this helps, Sun Tzu

To: telebob who wrote (10534)	2/5/1999 6:08:00 PM
From: Michael Linov	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 16960

The Intel KATMAI processor embedded 3D . . What will happen to TDFX when this embedded 3D processor, 70 new instructions and with MPEG-2 is released by INTEL ? will TDFX survive? compete? TDFX will sell lots more 3d cards since the Katmai has better 3d TRANSFORMS (which are still done by the cpu, not the graphic card), which will greatly improve the realism of hardware accelarated games. The CPU posses no threat whatsoever to TDFX. A dedicated graphic card like the V3 can perform the equivalent of over 100 billion floating point operations, in parallel with the system processor... By comparison, a 500 Mhz P3 can perform only about 300 Million. The difference is that 3d hardware only does 3d, while a CPU is general purpose. How about reversing the question... with a graphic accelarator, users don't need to buy a high-end workstation to play great games... they can live with their celerons, AMD's, and P200's for a year or 2 longer... how will Intel survive? :)