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To: Scumbria who wrote (31808)	4/26/1999 1:01:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 33344

SCUM bria - Re: "This would seem to indicate that the Intel approach of putting the graphics on the chipset side is a simpler and faster approach." I don't know if it's simpler, but it keeps the CPU designers FOCUSED on maximizing CPU performance, handling generally "known" CPU issues. The details of grafting a complex 3D graphics processor onto the CPU, and interfacing the two - along with the complex bus interactions - are then avoided. Instead, Intel took the output of two groups - the 440BX and the i740/752 designers - and merged them. This allowed all the details and implementation difficulties to be worked out among those two groups, avoiding interfering with the critical path of CPU architecture & design. Paul