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To: Sun Tzu who wrote (12048)	4/26/1999 10:32:00 PM
From: Patrick Grinsell	Respond to of 16960

OT: Sun,Great concept. I suspect the recent downtrend in NVDA is because of the release of 5 million insider shares a couple of days ago. Once the rest are unloaded the extra shares will hang around this stock like a pair of cement shoes. I'd be there with you, but I put all my funny-money into Hasbro. Hit another all-time high today <yawn>. May the force be with you! Pat P.S. Got all the STBI I could ever want for 11 1/2. Anyone out there want to volunteer to tell my wife if the merger flops? She's already mentally bought a nice new Lexus.

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (12048)	4/27/1999 2:59:00 AM
From: Sun Tzu	Respond to of 16960

OT -- FYI, Message 9164236 <eom>

To: Sun Tzu who wrote (12048)	4/27/1999 5:03:00 AM
From: Michael G. Potter	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 16960

Every time I try and short NVDIA, Waterhouse tells me that they don't have any shares available. I've tried three times (all between $19 and $20). I'm really curious just how well their TNT2 launch will be going and I haven't heard anything about the Vanta other than one cardmaker saying they're making a board based on it. When I look at the market, S3 seems to be going for the price-based low-end, ATi's Rage Pro will be threatened by the 810 chipset from Intel (did anyone else notice they're clocking their Mac Rage Fury @ 75 mhtz?), and TNT2 seems rather expensive without good branding for the OEM market. I think that the OEM's are in a sweet spot right now. Most of the new releases are fairly close in specs and all the chipmakers want as much OEM business as possible. I like 3dfx and ATi here. 3dfx has a strong retail presence so the OEM market is not as crucial to them. ATi and 3dfx are both pretty strong companies. Michael (who really should be sleeping right now)