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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Scumbria who wrote (45497)1/11/1999 8:33:00 PM
From: kash johal  Read Replies (2) of 1583406
 
Scumbria,

Re: Using SRAM for main memory.

I think that Paul suggestion is not that outlandish.

I think that you will find that in a few years that at $0.1 micron SRAM will approach bit prices of todays DRAM bit prices.

It would appear to me that a 1Ghz processor could benefit mightily from 128Mb of 1/2 speed memory.

And 128 Mb of DRAM memory today is pretty inexpensive.

Certainly for engineering intensive apps it would be awesome.
Obviously for Server apps which are more I/O limited it may not buy you much.

As a rough guide SRAM sizes are roughly 4x DRAM sizes.

Regards,

Kash

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