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To: Dan3 who wrote (67462)	8/3/1999 9:46:00 AM
From: grok	Respond to of 1574493

RE: <I'd guess that the timna generation entry level PC will need 128 meg of RAM, especially if costs are minimized by soldering a fixed amount of RAM to the motherboard. Or do you think it'll still be OK to limit the system to 64meg? When do you think that we'll see 512 mbit DRDRAMS?> First of all I'm just speculating that timna systems would have dram chips soldered onto the motherboard. They could still use RIMMs, one RIMM on each channel with each RIMM having four 128Mbit drdrams would result in 128 MByte on memory. However by the time that timna is a big seller, maybe 1.5 years from now, perhaps 256 Mbit drdrams might be the big seller and 256Mbyte minimum memory size might be considered too large so two 256Mbit drdrams soldered onto each channel might become standard. Or two chip RIMMs might be used. We are really mixed concepts here between the two rambus channels and soldering drams onto motherboards and this may confuse things more. As for 128Mbit drdrams I believe that we are already there. I think that the rambus world has given up on 64Mbit drdrams and gone right to 128Mbit on 0.18u since they couldn't meet full speed on anything less than 0.18u and the PC makers said they didn't want any sub-speed drdrams. This is contributing to the price differential between sdram and drdram which are being produced at 0.25u or 0.20u on deprechiated equipment.