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To: Paul Engel who wrote (82167)5/30/1999 8:46:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (2) of 186894
 
Paul,

However, my intuition is telling me that Intel will be moving the DRDRAM controller on to the CPU in the very near future - as indicated in the upcoming Timna. Then, your suggestion will work. This will achieve the reduced latency and deliver the performance "promised" by the DRDRAM approach.

Having the CPU core, memory controller, and graphics on the same die has the advantage that the memory accesses can be managed more carefully between the CPU and graphics, to prevent contention.

The raw latency will only improve by a very small amount, but the average latency can be improved by precharging/opening banks early.

Scumbria
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