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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (25259)	7/20/1999 5:22:00 AM
From: Ian Anderson	Respond to of 93625

A thought on the "why we do/dont need more memory bandwidth" issue It is correct that code accesses often hit the L1 cache, because the program is in a loop. However there is a growing class of applications which have a high data throughput, and the data is much too big to fit in the cache. Video and audio playback, video recording and editing, speech recognition, OCR. All these things will become part of the expected features of the home PC over the next 2 years. The history of the PC has always been that applications are written that go to the edge of current performance. I see no reason to suppose that Moores law is broken just now. I expect that in 2002 I will be able to buy a machine with 30Gb hard drive, 2Gb RDRAM, 1.5GHz Pentium IV processor, a 20" LCD screen, DVD drive, for around $1500. Of course the Rambus tax on that machine will not be so great, between $1 and $5 still, but in 2002 I expect them to collect that on around 200M machines