30 Nov
2004
30 Nov
'04
3:38 p.m.
On Sun, 28 Nov 2004, Mark Knecht wrote:
When I start to understand the registers that a piece
of hardware
makes visible I start to understand the architecture of the product
itself. If NVidia believes has an advantage over ATI in some area then
possibly ATI would copy that and improve their performance. Neither
company probably knows the intimate details of the inner workings of
the other company's chips and hence thinks they have the advantage.
Reminds me of a quote,
"If our enemies got ahold of our secrets, it would set them back
at least 10 years!"