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To: Eric.sun who wrote (18432)	8/3/1999 3:42:00 PM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 64865

if MAGJ is targeted for consumer, it better avoid anything expensive i agree with you there. i would point out though that the new sony playstation II to be announced at the tokyo games show sep 17 has many of the attributes assigned to magc. sony recently announced they are switching to rambus. nintendo has used rambus for at least 4 years. mutsushita (panasonic) announced they are designing an entire array of consumer products using the rambus memory. i did not ask about magc and rambus from a total vacuum. we all know sdram is finished. the choice of ddr or pc 133 rapidly becomes more expensive due to the increased pin count. as granularity increases that becomes a bigger expense factor and rambus actually becomes the cheaper solution. sun is all about bandwidth. rambus offers 300% more bandwidth than sdram at a cost premium estimated to settle at 10% after the ramp, decreasing into the future. is it unreasonable to expect sun to use the memory that offers the most bandwidth? unclewest