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To: Scumbria who wrote (51505)	3/3/1999 1:39:00 AM
From: Elmer	Respond to of 1573788

Re: "My point about Merced is that Intel should have been more aggressive with their IA-32 development. It appears they were napping for about 12 months until they realized Merced was having problems." Prepare yourself for a shock Scumbria. I agree with you completely. EP

To: Scumbria who wrote (51505)	3/3/1999 2:51:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1573788

SCUMbria & AMD Investors - MAXIMUM PC's Kick Ass award Looks like the non-exixtent Katmai software support is now becoming EXISTENT Paul {=============================} NVIDIA RIVA TNT Graphics Technology Powers Award-Winning Dell Dimension Pentium III System Jump to first matched term SANTA CLARA, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--March 2, 1999-- Dimension XPS T500 PC and NVIDIA's 3D Processor Combine to Win Maximum PC's Kick Ass Award and PC Computing's 5-Star Award NVIDIA(TM) Corporation (NASDAQ: NVDA) today announced that the NVIDIA RIVA TNT(TM)-based Dimension XPS T500 PC manufactured by Dell Computer Corporation (NASDAQ: DELL) was awarded Maximum PC's Kick Ass Award and PC Computing's 5-Star Award in their Pentium(R) III round-up. The Maximum PC Kick Ass Award can be found in the March 1999 issue of Maximum PC and the PC Computing 5-Star rating can be found online at zdnet.com. "With its advanced and scalable 128-bit TwiN Texel Architecture, the RIVA TNT delivers the highest level of performance and quality to mainstream PC's," said Michael Hara, vice president of corporate marketing at NVIDIA. "These latest award from Maximum PC and PC Computing demonstrate that the RIVA TNT and the Intel Pentium III processor create the most powerful 3D PC platform in the market today." All three systems tested by Maximum PC were submitted featuring the award winning RIVA TNT(TM) 3D processor as the graphics processor of choice for the new Pentium III systems scheduled to ship in the spring of 1999. All eight systems tested by Ziff-Davis and PC Computing were submitted featuring the award winning RIVA TNT(TM) 3D processor as the graphics processor of choice for their new Pentium III systems scheduled to ship in the spring of 1999. With the introduction of its new "Detonator" software, NVIDIA's RIVA TNT is optimized for the Intel Pentium III processor-based PCs. NVIDIA has added support for the Pentium III processor's Streaming SIMD Extensions to take full advantage of the capabilities of the Pentium III processor. The Dimension XPS T series represents Dell's most powerful line of desktop PCs for home and small business customers. When combined with the Pentium III processor's new software instruction set and the NVIDIA RIVA TNT graphics card, the XPS T series offers rich graphics for special effects such as shadowing and reflections used in games, multimedia applications, web creation and digital imaging. Dell offers two Pentium III enabled applications, Descent: FreeSpace by Interplay OEM and Expendable by Rage, as part of the Dell Home Office Essentials. NVIDIA Processors The RIVA family of 3D/2D processors, the RIVA TNT(TM), RIVA 128ZX(TM) and the RIVA 128(TM) is the first family of high performance processors for the performance mainstream PC market. The RIVA family of processors utilizes a 128-bit pipeline to support the computational throughput required for current and future graphically intense applications. The NVIDIA Vanta(TM)3D/2D processor is the first in a family of 3D processors designed for the enterprise PC market. Based on the award winning RIVA TNT architecture, the NVIDIA Vanta processor is designed for Windows 2000 and the burgeoning market for enterprise visualization applications. By leveraging its graphics technology and massive gate counts, all NVIDIA processors are able to deliver stunningly realistic, high frame rate 3D, along with benchmark winning 2D, VGA and video acceleration in single chip solutions. NVIDIA processors are optimized for both Direct3D(TM) and OpenGL(TM). About NVIDIA NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) designs, markets and sells a complete family of award-winning 3D processors that deliver industry-leading performance and visual quality for a broad range of PC applications, including: enterprise visualization, e-commerce, e-business, entertainment and education. Corporate headquarters are located in California: 3535 Monroe Street, Santa Clara, California 95051. For more information visit NVIDIA's web site at nvidia.com. Notes to Editors: Please note that the recommended way of writing NVIDIA, RIVA 128, RIVA 128ZX, RIVA TNT and NVIDIA VANTA is all CAPITALS. NVIDIA, the NVIDIA logo, RIVA TNT and NVIDIA VANTA are trademarks of NVIDIA Corp. RIVA, RIVA 128 and RIVA 128 ZX are trademarks of NVIDIA Corp. and ST Microelectronics. Other company and product names may be trademarks of the respective companies with which they are associated. CONTACT: NVIDIA Corporation Derek Perez, 408/615-2630 Email: dperez@nvidia.comrez@nvidia.com

To: Scumbria who wrote (51505)	3/3/1999 9:50:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573788

Scumbria - RE: "My point about Merced is that Intel should have been more aggressive with their IA-32 development." I bet part of the reason they weren't more aggressive with their IA-32 development is because they didn't feel the need to. When they began development of Merced, they probably didn't see any serious potential competition to their P6 family of processors. When did they start to work on Merced? When the K6 came out or before that? Now, AMD has a processor that can run neck to neck with Intel's most powerful processor, and they will have a processor that will be more powerful than anything Intel offers for some time.