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To: kash johal who wrote (60312)	6/2/1999 3:37:00 PM
From: grok	Read Replies (2) of 1571190

RE: < The increase from 100Mhz to 133Mhz didn't affect performance much at all. This leads to the conclusion that memory bandwidth is a non-issue for desktop PCs. And that 133 RDRAM won't do much either to boost performance.> There is some truth to this. Today's desktops are not too dependent on the drams. Of course as frequencies move to 1 GHz and beyond and AGP demands more and more bandwidth the needs increase. The real issue is revolutionary vs evolutionary. Do you make a big, sudden change and get maybe more than you need in the beginning at higher cost or do you make smoother steps to 100, 133, ddr, ddr2 and deliver just what is needed when it is needed. I think that the big, sudden change will be causing Intel some heart burn in Q3 since drdrams won't be in enough volume at low prices.

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