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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Joe NYC who wrote (114069)6/4/2000 11:06:00 AM
From: Elmer  Read Replies (1) of 1573737
 
Re: "Over the last 5 months that I have been following thread, I think you have a history of slightly over-estimating Intel's performance"

I think I've been very accurate describing Intel processor's performance. Do you mean execution?

As for Timna, keep in mind it is not intended to be the top end but rather the low end. The all-in-one design and greatly reduced pincount will be a great cost savings for boardmakers. For those who spend their time "Blasting Mutant Aliens" (tm EPhud '98) perhaps another choice might be in order for absolute top performance. If Intel can pack all this into a single die and still make them cheaply, one has to wonder if we might be seeing more integration in the future? With the memory controller on die we could see lower latency and higher memory bus speeds. Why limit the FSB to 133MHz or 266MHz when it's all in silicon? I know Alpha will be adding on-die RamBus channels and who knows who else will? This is where RamBus has a distinct advantage with it's low pincount. You could even have dual RamBus channels in far fewer pins than a single DDR channel on the processor die. Timna will show how feasible this is or isn't.

So RamBus remains an enigma. It offers solutions to problems that the alternatives simply aren't suited for, however it's currently too expensive and not readily available. Intel's execution was flawed by not having a viable backup plan, such as Solano, should RamBus take longer than expected to mature, which it has and continues to have. For this Intel has suffered dearly.

EP
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