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Politics : Ask Michael Burke
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To: Tommaso who wrote (62719)6/18/1999 8:21:00 AM
From: gnuman  Read Replies (2) of 132070
 
From "TomsHardware. "Intel has no plans of implementing PC133 SDRAM "
"Intel does not believe into PC133. I was told that Intel feels that PC133 is not offering enough performance gain and that it's unreliable on top of it. The protocol overhead of SDRAM is indeed a significant problem, which does not get reduced enough even though you're finally transferring the actual data 33% faster. One of the main problems of PC133 is that PC133 with a CAS-latency of 3 is performing worse than PC100with a CAS-latency of 2, but there are several other issues as well, which will become even more significant with DDR-SDRAM and DDR2-SDRAM as we move ahead.

The alternative explanation could be however, that Intel really despises PC133 because the competitors in the chipset market are using it as their weapon against RDRAM. Whichever it may be, PC133 will not be used by Intel as found in the roadmap, even upcoming chipsets that don't work with RDRAM will only use PC100 SDRAM.

A lengthy article with much info on roadmap and Rambus.

www4.tomshardware.com
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