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To: Bilow who wrote (78091)	11/1/1999 12:54:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson	Read Replies (1) of 1582842

Carl, We are indeed going that way. ALl the is needed is a fire-wire port and USB port and the board can be totally self contained, no connectors, buffers etc. Quite a saving. In addition with the low heat of .18 and .13 processes you will be able to get away from the slot one connector and plant the CPU on the mobo directly with cache on the other side. Lots of wires, but doable. If you do a real estate count you will see that such a board with 256M on board will be about the footprint of a 3.5" floppy. Sounds small?, yes, but doable with parts on both sides and few connectors and the space they waste. We have 1000 Meg memory chips being made now in small amounts. 2 of those in 4x256 mode = 256 megabytes on memory. 1 in 8x128 mode =128Meg of memory. I would say they will dominate in about 3 years. Even workstations will converge this way, with more memory etc. And they will get cheap, very cheap. Power needs less, case needs less, fewer connectors. WOW. Bill

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