Hi h0db; Re: "Right now, the roadmaps Mike saw color code them as continuations of the i850 chipset "family," but they will not be called the i850. Strange that Springdale, a chipset, can have RDRAM support--I thought that was a DDR chipset?"
BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!! Earth to h0db! Earth to h0db! Of course Springdale is a DDR chipset. Intel talked it up during the spring Intel Developer's Forum. Really, for your financial safety, you should take this quote on how people delude themselves to heart: "misinterpret incomplete or unrepresentative data and give extra attention to confirmatory data while drawing conclusions without attending to or seeking out disconfirmatory data" #reply-17310445
The fact is that there are thousands of web references to Springdale as a DDR chipset and only one (soon to be corrected) reference to it as an RDRAM chipset, but you're ignoring the "disconfirmatory" data while believing the single "confirmatory" datum that you have.
Here, look at the roadmap that Intel gave the motherboard makers and judge for yourself:
watch.impress.co.jp
As to whether Intel supports PC1066, that is yet to be seen. Right now the word is that the FSB got sped up, but that doesn't necessarily mean a speedup of the memory bus.
The basic problem with PC800 is lack of market causing high prices and low availability. That problem would only be made worse by splitting the market into PC800 plus PC1066.
Here's a clue that the 850E isn't going to amount to much sales: If it were, Samsung would be announcing that they were increasing their RDRAM production. Now go back and click again on that Intel chipset roadmap. Notice how RDRAM usage in Intel's PC chipsets peaked in mid 2001? That's right, workstations drop off in October 2002, while the rest of the RDRAM niche in the performance market disappears in mid 2003 with the takeover by Springdale.
-- Carl |
