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To: kash johal who wrote (61187)	6/9/1999 8:55:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1572630

<I believe they talked about 3 speed grades 600, 7XX, and 800mhs speeds. ... Clearly they wouldn't be talking about sub 800Mhz parts if everything was hunky dory on speed yields.> At least there are 800 MHz parts being yielded in some form or another. The DRAM guys like Micron and Samsung have three more months to raise the yields on 800 MHz parts, which would suit them just fine if they found themselves to be the first to market with full-speed RIMMs. There are many people out there willing to pay top dollar for higher-speed (but low-volume and low-yielding) TNT2 Ultra graphics chips. Hopefully DRDRAM provides enough of a performance boost at its launch to convince the performance-hungry to pay the premiums. After all, if they're willing to pay $750 for a Pentium III CPU, imagine what they'll pay for 800 MHz DRDRAM. Tenchusatsu

To: kash johal who wrote (61187)	6/10/1999 12:13:00 AM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1572630

Kash - Re: "I wonder where these low speed RDRAMs will go if only cream of the crop yields at 800Mhz.....Of course it could be a Micron only issue and everybody else is yielding 800Mhz plus no problem!!!" You AMDroids are sure getting nervous about Intel's upcoming Coppermine and the Camino Chip set and RAMBUS memory. You should be enjoying all the K7 hoopla - the leaked blow-away benchmarks, the analyst's praises, the soaring AMD stock price, the unanimous endorsement of all the OEM's, sneaked "first look reviews" of K7 PCs by PC Week, etc. Paul