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To: unclewest who wrote (28120)	8/30/1999 6:40:00 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Re: two months ago the ceo of sony declared sldram... Chips and systems are either stable in a given configuration or they aren't. If they aren't, they can be improved so that they are. They don't get "declared" unstable, it's not like a legal judgement. I remember less than 10 years ago 10 megahertz over twisted pair was considered impossible to implement in a stable configuration. The building where my present office is located has (expensive) optical fiber to each desktop because 7 years ago it appeared that decent network speed over copper wasn't possible - but that fiber has never been used. Now gigahertz ethernet (over twisted pair) standards are being finalized - a thousandfold increase over a speed thought unattainable less than ten years ago. Rambus has a 128 bit wide internal data path that uses up a large amount of chip real estate and makes it more expensive than other types of DRAM. SLDRAM is a technology that tightens up SDRAM's bus to allow higher speeds, rambus like data rates that don't yield useful performance increases. It's not needed now, but if and when it is needed, either it, or an improved variation on it, will be implemented. The fact that this free technology is sitting on the shelf unused should tell you something. Dan