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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (24326)7/8/1999 6:52:00 PM
From: Jdaasoc  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 93625
 
Tenchusatsu:
Why 4 128 MB chips to make 64 Megs. The beauty of RDRAM is 2 256 Mbit chips or 1 512 Mbit chip will do as well. When 256 Mbit RAM is industry standard, low cost, capacity chip density in 2000, competing system designs based on 64 byte wide designs, like current ALPHA chip with EV6 and if I am correct K7 SDRAM or DDR implimentations from AMD, will have minimum granularity of 256*64 /8 or 2 GB. I can;t see systems vendors wanting the first two memory choices to be either 2 Gb or 4 GB.



To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (24326)7/9/1999 10:15:00 AM
From: TigerPaw  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 93625
 
great price/performance combination
Soldering Rambus on the motherboard solves the pesky problem of impedance matching. The connector introduces variability into the interface so that it must be designed for worst case. A direct connection would be much more exact and could be designed for full speed. (Box makers would lose the ability to sell up some additional memory and they wouldn't like that from a marketing viewpoint).
TP


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