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!"