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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (21461)	6/2/1999 2:55:00 PM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (1) of 93625

Zeev, You reminded me that I wanted to post some of the EDO/SDRAM transition FUD articles from 1996. Remember that SDRAM came out in mid-1996 for PCs and within 2 years was virtually the only memory you could get on a desktop. Here's four that I found. Any of them sound familiar? #1: First, that pesky cost/performance issue... Systems get synchronous: new silicon muddies the buying waters. (EDO DRAM and SDRAM) (Technology Information) Multimedia World, July 1996 v3 n8 p20(1) Author Desmond, Michael Summary Hardware vendors are jettisoning familiar memory technologies such as DRAM and VRAM in favor of Extended Data Out DRAM (EDO DRAM) and Synchronous DRAM (SDRAM). Micron Electronics rolled out EDO DRAM in 1993 to boost the efficiency of fast-page-mode DRAM. Almost all fast Pentium systems currently use the newcomer technology. Seeking even a greater performance boost, system vendors are migrating to SDRAM, which costs negligibly more than EDO RAM but delivers a 10 percent or more performance boost. However, SDRAM's Dual In-line Memory Module (DIMM) configuration will not fit into conventional 72-pin SIMM sockets. Also, SDRAM will only work with chip sets designed for synchronous memory. In real-life tests, SDRAM delivers significant performance gains only in the realm of cache misses. The technology is sure to be improved, but until then, it is probably not worth the extra cost.

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