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To: Boplicity who wrote (25883)	7/28/1999 7:38:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 93625

Greg, Would be so kind to tell me your back ground I am a long time veteran of the CPU/Graphics/Chipset/System businesses. I am currently doing a very high performance graphics design which uses lots of DRDRAM. The fundamental problem with DRDRAM on the motherboard is that desktop CPU performance is affected far more by memory latency than by memory bandwidth. DRDRAM has excellent bandwidth, but poor latency characteristics. It is a very good technology for products which require long streams of data from contiguous addresses (like graphics and network cards.) The costs associated with DRDRAM are currently prohibitive. Because of this, I don't expect DRDRAM to become mainstream for another year or two. Intel's management appeared very confused about the bandwidth issue when they jumped on board the Rambus bandwagon last year, and I made numerous posts back then on the Intel and AMD threads discussing this. Scumbria