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Article #103Re: Voodoo II found to have overheating problems!
From: Lanny 'Rishathra' Lister
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 00:00
Date: Tue, 03 Mar 1998 00:00
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Jim Sokoloff wrote: > They'd also need to invest (risk) a LOT more money building plants, > buying capital equipment, building a distribution mechanism and sales > force, etc... > > They don't make 3dfx boards for the same reason they don't make sound > cards, motherboards, memory, or a whole host of other things and > Diamond doesn't design core chipsets for graphics > cards. > > Specialization ensures that companies concentrate on what they're good > at, rather than trying to do everything. Investing in a fab for chips > and equipment for PCB stuffing and soldering isn't core to what 3dfx > does. Diamond and Creative already have experience in and capital > equipment to manufacture boards. So they do that, 3dfx does the chip > design and everybody makes more money than if any of them did the > whole thing soup to nuts... > > > ---Jim Anybody remember the plant that Ford built. Damn thing was a mile or so long, steel, rubber, etc... went in one end, a car came out the other. It only operated for a few years before they shut it down, it cost them to much money to do everything themselves. -- Remove NOT.HERE to reply (anti-spam device) ICQ# 6255690 Knoxville, Tn. Where the men are men, and the Women are SEC Champions and defending NCAA Champions Go Lady Vols (33-0)
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 10735c,95b3935cbbdef1d1 X-Google-Attributes: gid10735c,public X-Google-Thread: 114911,95b3935cbbdef1d1 X-Google-Attributes: gid114911,public X-Google-Thread: 1029b6,95b3935cbbdef1d1 X-Google-Attributes: gid1029b6,public X-Google-Thread: f4bb2,95b3935cbbdef1d1 X-Google-Attributes: gidf4bb2,public X-Google-Thread: 10db54,95b3935cbbdef1d1 X-Google-Attributes: gid10db54,public X-Google-Thread: 10a47c,95b3935cbbdef1d1 X-Google-Attributes: gid10a47c,public From: Lanny 'Rishathra' Lister <llister@NOT.HERE.icx.net> Subject: Re: Voodoo II found to have overheating problems! Date: 1998/03/03 Message-ID: <34FC9741.321E9FC4@NOT.HERE.icx.net> X-Deja-AN: 330585568 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: <34ED13B8.85241AE5@gamepad.org> <34edb540.31602761@news.earthlink.net> <34f2becf.18684770@news-server> <6d0g66$per$1@nnrp2.crl.com> <34F3E428.1FFF@lts.sel.alcatel.de> <6d0t94$3um$1@nnrp2.crl.com> <m1nlnuscwt2.fsf@fardm2.boston.deshaw.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: 3 Mar 1998 18:49:49 GMT, 206.151.109.82 Organization: Killing Time MIME-Version: 1.0 Reply-To: llister@icx.net Newsgroups: comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.video,3dfx.products,3dfx.glide,3dfx.game.discussion,rec.autos.simulators,comp.sys.ibm.pc.games.flight-sim