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To: Scumbria who wrote (28710)	2/16/2001 2:41:28 PM
From: TimF	Read Replies (1) of 275872

tegrated DRAM controllers are a bad idea because it gates the ultimate cost- time to market. DRAM changes all the time, and having an integrated DRAM controller forces CPUs into obsolesence quickly. Is there any reasonable (in terms of cost and development time) way to get a integrated RAM controler that is flexible enough to work with different types of memory? It would still have the problem of not working with brand new types of memory that were not anticipated at the time of the memory controlers design, but at least it would avoid the problem that Timna had. If Timna's memory controler could have worked with RDRAM and SDRAM then maybe it would not have had to be canceled. Tim

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