Creative's 3Dlabs to Focus on the Handheld Market

[Darius Wey]

<div class='os_post_top_link'><a href='http://www.creative.com/press/releases/welcome.asp?pid=12341' target='_blank'>http://www.creative.com/press/relea...e.asp?pid=12341</a><br /><br /></div><i>"Creative Technology Ltd. (NASDAQ: CREAF), a worldwide leader in digital entertainment products, today announced that its subsidiary, 3Dlabs Inc., Ltd. will refocus its 3D graphics business on the portable handheld device market and de-emphasize its professional workstation graphics business. 3Dlabs will transition from the shrinking professional workstation graphics market to focus on portable handheld devices which require intensive media processing for video, audio and increasingly powerful 3D graphics."</i><br /><br /><img src="http://www.pocketpcthoughts.com/images/web/2003/wey-20050225-Creative.gif" /><br /><br />Creative's latest press release is a little obscure - there's no real mention of the types of handheld devices that 3Dlabs Inc. will focus on. We can only hope it includes Pocket PCs.

[SteveHoward999]

I was thinking earlier today... an awful lot of people should be discovering how powerful Windows Mobile phones are over the next few months. I wonder how many will realise that, since all they use the PC for is email and ripping CDs that maybe they don't really need a PC any more, and in fact the PDA/phone is a more desireable toy ...