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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Charles R who wrote (66432)	7/22/1999 2:06:00 AM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575625

Chuck - RE: "Check this out." From your link eetimes.com - "The price of the 128-Mbyte RIMM should drop to $250 by the fourth quarter, at which time the 128-Mbyte PC133 DIMM will sell for about $100 to $125, Tabrizi said. The 100 percent premium will reflect the higher cost of the RDRAM package, the more expensive testers, and the larger die size of the RDRAMs, he said." That means Intel-based high end systems with RDRAM will cost at least $125 more than non RDRAM based systems. This could give the Athlon an advantage, but if OEMs decied to use PC100 instead, the price difference will go away. But I guess performance will go down also because of the MTH, unless Camino motherboards are made with only DIMM slots that don't need the MTH, if that is even possible. Edit: Wait a sec, if BX doesn't support running memory at a different speed than the processor bus (like the MVp3 and Via 133 chipset), will Camino be the same? If so, we may not see 133MHz bus Culatermine chips until next year. I'm assuming not all OEMs will use RamBUST RAM because of supply/price.