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To: Petz who wrote (38957)	10/9/1998 6:08:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) of 1573004

AMD Slot A is a leap over the Slot 1 in performance. Timing skew means Slot 1 100 MHz bus can only be extended to about 133 MHz and I doubt Slot 1 can support RAMBUS technology. Slot A will start at 200 MHz, and support cheap dual-data rate SDRAM, as well as direct RAMBUS. John, I still haven't heard a good argument why anyone would want to attach RDRAM to a CPU. The latencies are long and it is not a normal CPU function to burst anything longer than a cache line in or out of the processor. RDRAM is a great technology for graphics adapters, which do burst very large chunks of data. 3DNow implementation in K7 will be a superset which extends 3DNow SIMD performance to double precision. Tune in next Tuesday. Sounds very interesting.... Scumbria

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