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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (28370)	9/1/1999 11:42:00 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Re: the advantages of SGRAM over DRDRAM in the video market? Cheaper and easier to ramp up supply. But it may not matter. There is an article in the current issue of EBN or one of the other tabloid size industry magazines about the current status of embedded DRAM. It could have been eetimes or computerworld, I was busy today and just glanced through them quickly - I looked for a link tonight to see if it had been posted, but couldn't find it - shouldn't really matter since it was basically a conceptual article. The gist of the article was that as chip density has been increasing, the suitability of embedded DRAM has extended to more and more applications. That it is suitable for network cards now and will be used in video chips in the next year or two. If the RAM's on the chip, there are no memory bus pins, greatly reduced latency, and 128 bit wide data paths to memory become affordable. So neither Rambus nor SGDRAM may have much time in the Video Card market. If the RAM is on the video chip, you don't need the bus, SDRAM's, DDR DRAM's, Rambus's or any other. Dan