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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: jcholewa who wrote (123358)8/31/2000 10:41:45 AM
From: Daniel Schuh   of 1579897
 
JC, somewhat in counterpoint to the following:

But even that is somewhat irrelevant, since we likely will not see any dual channel (slash interleaved) implementation of SDRAM in the reasonably near future. It's just a too expensive option, and AMD doesn't do expensive. So only Rambus memory will have the benefit of dual channels (to its credit, DRDRAM is reportedly a little cheaper to which to do this sort of parallelism).

There was this review of the Ali7 dual channel SDRAM socket7 chipset, tomshardware.com . Seemed to work pretty well, and definitely aimed at "cheap", with UMA graphics and all. Granted, it's not likely to be very successful market wise, given its dependence on the unavailable K6-III or the sparsely available K6-2+. But it seems like a good proof in principle that dual channel SDRAM/DDR doesn't have to be that expensive, either. If there's a need, it'll get done.

Cheers, Dan.
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