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To: Scumbria who wrote (37471)4/26/2001 3:45:02 PM
From: combjellyRead Replies (1) of 275872
 
"Why wouldn't Intel use a 128 bit bus?"

Because they are aiming the DDR chipset at the very low cost market, and apparently 6 layers won't cut it. For the stuff I do, most of the boards are 10 layers plus and they only cost us a couple of bucks a pieces. Now true, a motherboard is larger, but so are the volumes. I personally don't see where 6 layers is that big of a cost factor, but the reports almost always hold that it is. A 128 bit wide memory bus would have to be on a 6 or even 8 layer board to keep the size in line.
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