Scumbria,
I hope for a realistic discussion of the facts, but certain people are burying the thread in garbage.
I consider it "garbage" when someone tries to claim that you need $200 worth of DRDRAM to put together a small system solution, when in reality you probably only need $5 worth (how much does one PC600 128Mb RDRAM chip cost?).
Doesn't that sound like BS to you?
Dave
p.s. Here's the report from EBN on the Timna delay. It basically says that the delay was due to the problems in the MTH for the 820 leaking over to the MTH that was planned for Timna (which apparently was always planned for Timna). It is the redesign of the MTH that is causing the delay, and Timna will still have an RDRAM controller built-in, according to EBN.
Intel delays Timna launch following MTH cancellation.
(Company Business and Marketing)
Electronic Buyers' News, June 12, 2000 p4
By Hachman, Mark
Silicon Valley- Intel Corp.'s cancellation of its memory-translator-hub architecture and the delay of its Timna processor should end an embarrassing chapter in the company's history.
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But by closing the book on the current generation of the MTH, Intel has also labeled it a failure. Intel officials even refuse to use the term "MTH" in describing the interface that enables the Timna to communicate with system memory.
"It's just a memory-interface product, not an MTH," a spokesman said last week.
Because a combination of temperature and voltage errors occasionally caused circuit failure, the chip is being entirely redesigned, the spokesman said. Although the chip's function will still be to translate SDRAM into the Timna's Direct Rambus interface, it will be a "new product," he said. He declined to specify if the new interface chip will support single-data-rate or double-data-rate SDRAM.
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