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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: jcholewa who wrote (123361)8/31/2000 7:52:58 PM
From: vvga  Read Replies (2) of 1570724
 
>Im going to go out on the edge here and assert that pins >are somewhat irrelevant. The sole advantage of having fewer >pins is to reduce prices. Number of pins were (years
> ago) expected to be a problem, cost-wise, for >chipset/memory implementations. For some reason, this has >not happened (per-pin costs have dropped such that number >of
> pins aren't as much of a worry). Meanwhile, in >order to implement other advantages of DRDRAM, there are >cost increases orders greater than the savings generated by >the
> fewer pins.
>
> So, pincount isn't really a good ground to stand >on to defend DRDRAM. There are other, much better reasons >to fight for DRDRAM. Pins aren't it.

Two DDR SDRAM "channels" will cost a boat-load of pins, not just a measly 30 pins, more like 100 pins. Yes you can build a dual DDR controller, but it may bump you into a significantly more expensive package.
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