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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Charles R who wrote (67226)8/1/1999 1:42:00 PM
From: grok  Read Replies (1) of 1574002
 
RE: <Even on the much touted graphics advantages, I can see graphics/chipset guys integrating memory at 1-T SRAMs or as outside DRAM modules or straight DRAM integration like some people have done to avoid Rambus premiums. Why put expensive memory for the entire PC if one can integrate a much cheaper version with the graphics controller?>

Embedded 6T sram, embedded dram, and dedicated outside dram are all important for 3D and all are used now. (Not too sure about 1T sram. Did you mean to say 2T?) But the problem is that texture memory is huge. Way too huge for embedded dram and even too huge for non-embedded, dedicated dram in the long run. So sharing the PC main memory for textures seems the only solution ultimately. Of course there may be work station solutions with a different architecture but I'm talking about mainstream PCs.

I think that this 3D arch is a big reason that intel went to big for rambus.
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