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To: Zakrosian who wrote (29198)	9/10/1999 3:02:00 PM
From: Zeev Hed	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Zakorsian, it will definitely enhance video delivery, I am not sure why audio is still a problem, it should not be, but if bandwidth can help, it will there too. Further, I think it will enhance the speed of future audio communication between the machine and the operator, avoiding the need of excessive use of keyboards and mouse with bandwidth hungry speech recognition software, eye movement monitoring )for virtual mouse) improve games and 3d simulation, and eventually the use of high definition virtual display systems as well. These are more some of the "consumer" applications, of course, in technical applications like finite elements analysis, you can use all the speed that they will give you, these software programs operating even at 300 MHz are still too slow. I know, I have just gone through few months of electromagnetic modeling exercises, and gosh, are those system slow as soon as you go into real life 3D applications... Zeev

To: Zakrosian who wrote (29198)	9/10/1999 6:40:00 PM
From: Investartist	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

<will it (meaning RAMBUS) enhance the currently poor quality of audio and video that comes over the internet?> You miss the point, Zakrosian. This summer, I heard a speech by George Gilder of the Gilder Technology group. George is an often quoted visionary of high technology. He stated that the internet use is now less than 1/10th of one percent of the potential in 5yrs. He expects a 1000x increase in traffic in the internet. Don't you think that opportunistic companies will quickly find profit potential in high bandwidth services such as video streaming, 3D graphics, etc. The infrastructure has to be in place before the new products and services will accelerate. Look at the acceleration of internet businesses that has occurred (after) the internet was in place for the public. I believe that the public will want and demand the latest high bandwith applications that require RAMBUS to access. Its like horse and buggy vs. cars as Glenda mentioned so aptly. Sincerely, Investartist

To: Zakrosian who wrote (29198)	9/10/1999 11:47:00 PM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 93625

Re: will it enhance the currently poor quality of audio... We have summer students who sometimes do data entry level tasks. While they work on things like this, they often listen to some of the web radio stations on machines as slow as 90MHZ pentiums with FPM memory - and the sound is just fine. But we have redundant OC-24 (1,244Mbps) and OC-12 (622Mbps) connections to the internet. They key is network bandwidth, not cpu power or memory bandwidth. Additional CPU power can become important when signals are compressed and must be uncompressed in real time, particularly video. But this is a computation bounded problem, not a memory bandwidth problem. How much and how fast is the memory in a typical DVD player? (I have no idea, but whatever it is, it is all that is needed) Dan