Something we all know, and can say without doubt
is that, NVIDIA has some hotshot 3D chip engineers. But, what most
folk don’t know is that they have an equally smart marketing team.
Now why would I say that? If you just take a glance at there product
range you’ll realize that there is a product offering from NVIDIA
targeted at each different level of PC buyer. They’ve segmented the
market so well, and offered each segment a product that is so ideally
priced and by giving the optimum bang for the money spent they’ve
basically taken over the 3D graphics market from the competition.
And they don’t stop there, no no no!!! NVIDIA wants to push every
pixel to the maximum in every market segment, let it be the TNT buyers
or the high end Ultra; their new products keep popping up like mushrooms.
This kind of market segmentation and expansion is not only adopted
by NVIDIA, but also the processor manufacturing ‘giants’ INTEL and
AMD have grouped there processors in features and price to cater to
such individual markets.
This way they can have a market presence in each of the small markets
instead of having to settle for just one large group of PC buyers.
The benefits work both ways cause then the consumer also has the choice
of selecting a processor or graphics card to suit his ideal requirements
and price. So where does the GeForce2 MX line of cards belong?Well it’s the value and business PC market that the GF2 MX
is aimed at. Basically what NVIDIA has used as the recipe for the
GF2 MX is pretty simple.
Take
the GF2 technology.
Put
in two pipelines in place of the four used in the GTS
