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To: Jdaasoc who wrote (24153)	7/5/1999 1:20:00 PM
From: Dave B	Respond to of 93625

Jd, Great stuff! The availability of 288MB RIMMs (256M with error bit) from Kingston is great news, except that I thought RDRAM RIMMs were limited to 192M. Don't know where I heard that, but it must be wrong. We'll have to check with one of the tech experts. RDRAM was mentioned in the San Jose Mercury today in an article about AMD's new K7 chip: Coppermine also uses a faster system bus, but much of the chip's performance will be tied into a new chip set design that supports a new type of memory known as RDRAM, designed and licensed by Rambus, Inc. "I absolutely believe that ultimately, Rambus' memory will offer better performance than standard memory," [Michael] Feibus [of Mercury Research] said, comparing the new memory chip design to the static RAM memory chips ued to increase performance today. "But it won't be faster initially. I think Intel just didn't realize that there was so much life left in SRAM." I don't know if it's the writers fault or Feibus's in referring to SRAM rather than SDRAM, but he probably meant SDRAM. Some good and some bad in the two paragraphs. Dave