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To: Carnac who wrote (3282)	4/30/1999 3:31:00 PM
From: Marc	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 5927

<<And no, Mpact was never sold off.> Update: ATI to buy Chromatic, MCC seeks Mpact line By Mark Hachman Electronic Buyers' News (10/21/98, 07:15:36 PM EDT) The current sales leader in PC graphics chips, ATI Technologies Inc., has agreed to acquire multimedia IC vendor Chromatic Research Inc. for $67 million in stock, part of its ongoing push into set-top boxes, analysts said. While ATI's acquisition initially looked as though it could prove to be the final stake in the coffin of Chromatic's Mpact product line, today, Chicago's Multimedia Convergence Corp. (MCC), a startup manufacturer of set-top box PCs, announced that it signed a letter of intent to acquire the Mpact line, which combines various multimedia processing functions into a single chip. MCC will also license the Mpact intellectual property from Chromatic, which will become a wholly-owned subsidiary of ATI, but will probably retain its identity and current headquarters, according to John Monti, vice-president of marketing at Sunnyvale, Calif.-based Chromatic. Executives at ATI, based in Thornhill, Ontario, did not return calls asking for comment on the acquisition. Anything more ???? MArc

To: Carnac who wrote (3282)	4/30/1999 4:14:00 PM
From: NTT	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 5927

>>>When the ISA (MMX, then KNI) finally went public, my reaction was a feeling of extreme disappointment. AltiVec has been the best media design so far, followed by Strong ARM 1500.<<< I'll agree with that. I thought KNI was a good effort and eons ahead of the MMX design, but it still didn't measure up to some of the nice features of Altivec such as the bit convolutions and the independant vector unit with the large number of 128 bit registers. I haven't done enough investigation of the SA1500 to comment on that. >>>As far as my being informed, well, check with the folks on the Cube thread as to that. I'll await the sound of bricks dropping from your direction.<<< I looked at your messages. There's no sound of bricks dropping. You're not as ill-informed as I had originally thought, but when I see comments like your patent one then I really have to start wondering. I also found this earlier post of yours in reply to the ATI chromatics deal: >>>one word for ATI: suckers!<<< Obviously you have never thought much of Chromatics, and your bias may stem from your advocation of C-Cube. Hey, I have no problems with C-Cube -- I've worked with their chips and I think they are a technology leader. But when you're thinking of Chromatics, the only thing you know is MPact. As you're well aware, ATI didn't buy out Chromatics for MPact.