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To: richard surckla who wrote (26449)	8/5/1999 8:11:00 AM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

would a few techies please explain the difference. it seems to me that pixelfusions offering with rambus wins by a landslide. tia, unclewest samsung's graphics offering The new chip, operating at 222MHz, was also described by the company as an "evolutionary alternative" to Rambus Direct DRAM, at least in graphics applications. Samsung claimed the part can deliver 1.8GBps throughput on a 64-bit bus and 3.5GBps on a 128-bit bus. from pixelfusion The FUZION™ 150 chip features four Rambus Channels at access speeds of 1.6 gigabyte per second per Channel, resulting in throughput of 6.4 GB/second between the chip and local memory. FUZION™ 150's massively parallel architecture takes full advantage of the four channels, delivering more than one-and-a-half teraOPS or three gigaFLOPS of computing power. This unprecedented performance is enabled by Rambus' high memory access speeds and extremely low latency. "PixelFusion's FUZION™ 150 chip demonstrates the benefits of Rambus technology for graphics applications requiring increased memory bandwidth and performance," said Dave Mooring, vice president and general manager, Personal Computing Division at Rambus Inc. "PixelFusion's FUZION™ takes full advantage of the performance scaling capability of Rambus technology to deliver powerful graphics computing solution for Windows NT systems.