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To: MileHigh who wrote (21494)	6/2/1999 3:45:00 PM
From: Don Green	Respond to of 93625

This was taken from the latest PC magazine June 22,1999 John Dvorak's Inside track Believe it when you see it Dept: The most talked-about chip in the business is no longer the Intel Pentium-III, the AMD-K-6-III, or any other microprocessor we're accustomed to seeing. It's the new Sony Emotion Engine in the Playstation II. The specifications for this chip and things it is capable of doing are mind-boggling. This is assuming the hype is true. The story is nothing new, but worth reading. Regards Don

To: MileHigh who wrote (21494)	6/2/1999 4:52:00 PM
From: Ian Anderson	Respond to of 93625

Speaking as someone who has had extremely painful experience of trying to make a motherboard with a VIA chipset stable enough to boot the OS, I do not think that a chip set yet to be announced, is any threat at all to Rambus designs, which must be nearly ready to ship by now. My experience was that the development time for a motherboard with a Taiwanese chipset was usually about twice that of one using an Intel chipset, and the results were often less satisfactory. I would never by a motherboard with a Taiwanese chipset for this reason.