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To: unclewest who wrote (28049)	8/29/1999 10:58:00 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Re: don't call them nonsense... Sorry Unclewest, but the argument that you have made for lower cost rambus is that someday the DRAM for the whole system will be put onto a single chip, saving pin costs. SDRAM, VC DRAM, etc. have a smaller die size per bit than Rambus. A 2 chip SDRAM solution might be cheaper than a single chip due to pin counts, but adding pins isn't that expensive - it's certainly cheaper than 400MHZ silicon. For you, knowing what you know, to make the argument that SDRAM isn't practical once multi-megabit chips are available is disingenuous, at best. And we know from the experience of tens of millions of users how easy and reliable the process of adding additional SDRAM to a system is - we have yet to see any system that can be upgraded with additional Rambus - systems become unpredictable when frequencies are increased in such large jumps - you brought up the issue, I didn't. Notice that the CPQ/AMD EV6 bus is designed for 400MHZ throughput, but they are taking it steps while the design is proven in practice. Upgrading SDRAM systems is a proven process - upgrading rambus systems is an unknown. Dan