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To: grok who wrote (29745)	9/17/1999 1:38:00 PM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

KZ, <That's a choice????????????> Absolutely. The proof is that not every DRAM mfr. has signed up as a Rambus licensee. Not every chip equipment company has signed up, not every boxmaker has signed up, etc., etc., etc. They have chosen not to participate. If Rambus crashes and burns, as you're predicting, then the companies that have not wasted money on RDRAM equipment and development will look like geniuses, and everyone will say that they made the right choice. The companies that have spent a bunch of money will have made the wrong choice. <If they were providing a choice they would provide two versions of Camino one supporting Rambus and one supporting Sdram and support each equally well. Then the whole industry could make the choice.> I've discussed this over and over and over again. Not every option has to be offered by a company in their product lines. You have to make decisions to go with the best options, and Intel chose RDRAM (as did Sony and Nintendo and a variety of other companies outside the PC arena that have announced that they'll be using RDRAM). If you want to talk about choice, why isn't AMD offering RDRAM support on its Athlon processor? Why isn't that a choice for their customers? Why aren't they offering VC DRAM support that dumbmoney loves (BTW, dumbmoney, are you writing letters to AMD complaining about the lack of VC DRAM support?)? ES DRAM? SRAM? Whatever answer you use to justify AMD's lack of choice for its customers, you can apply to Intel. Then maybe we can put this silly question to bed. Dave