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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (67452)8/3/1999 8:19:00 AM
From: Dan3  Read Replies (1) of 1574493
 
Re: SDRAM module consists of eight 64 Mbit chips.

You might want to take a look at the data sheet for the micron MT48LC2M32B2 - it's configured at 8x32, and it's shipping at 166MHZ.
Wouldn't two of these chips give you your 64 bit data path? One of the semicons, off the top of my head I don't recall which, has produced prototypes of a 1Mbit SDRAM - at which density you can get 128Meg on a chip at 8x64. It's a good 1 to 2 years from volume production, though. But the 512 mbit chip should be available at moderate cost (yielding 64 meg from a chip) in the same general time frame as 256 mbit rambus.

I just don't see anything about rambus that's nearly as compelling as microchannel was. Microchannel was more than double the bandwidth, eliminated to horrible jumper problem that was annoying everybody, and was the only thing being shipped by the company that dominated the business at the time - it couldn't miss.

Rambus is faster for some applications and slower for others, it doesn't solve any particular problem like the jumper setting issue, and it adds a similar royalty and expense increase. IBM was able to force some microchannel machines onto the market for a while, but it killed their PC business, then microchannel went away.

Intel has done a much better job of trying to diplomatically ease rambus into the market. They fully understand the issues since they were among the leaders of those who killed microchannel. Maybe they'll have better luck than IBM did.
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