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To: Dan3 who wrote (82851)	12/14/1999 11:32:00 PM
From: Doug M.	Read Replies (1) of 1571054

Dan3, I'm having a little problem following your logic. In this quote you imply that the EV6 bus technology from Compaq/Digital is very technologically advanced. "AMD may be a few months behind in shipping its 64 bit CPU, but since it doesn't suffer from NIH (not invented here) syndrome, it's years ahead in its chipset/bus - because it has licensed the Alpha EV6 technology from Compaq/DIGITAL." Then you go on to say that AMD: "had the foresight to design for DDR DRAM from the beginning, instead of falling for Rambus, then having to go back and start from scratch when it became clear that Rambus wasn't the best approach." My question is why would a company (Digital/Compaq)that has such a great bus technology with the EV6 plan to go onto use a next generation processor with the "wrong" DRAM controller built into the CPU? As you should know, Samsung just won the contract to develop the Alpha EV7 processor. Did you know the EV7 has built in RDRAM controllers? I guess the "technologically advanced" people picked the wrong DRAM, didn't they? Doug

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