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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (29024)9/8/1999 10:49:00 PM
From: grok  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 93625
 
RE: <According to what I've read so far, it seems that if a new RDRAM design is created that has fewer banks per device, the memory controller may have to be slightly tweaked to support this new design.>

But no matter how slight the tweak is it requires that the controller be changed and then we have old rdrams and new rdrams and old controllers and new controllers and you can't mix new rdrams with old controllers. All the rdrams from all the vendors and all the controllers from all the vendors all have to change and care taken to not mix. Sounds pretty serious to me. (Unless the controllers were designed with this flexibility?????)



To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (29024)9/9/1999 2:24:00 AM
From: dumbmoney  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 93625
 
This is definitely not a major overhaul of RDRAM. Such a redesign could just lead to minor headaches, but that's about it.

Any incompatible change is a major headache. Either the DRAM makers have to make two different DRDRAM types (with completely different mask sets), or today's Camino purchaser gets screwed.


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