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To: Process Boy who wrote (72672)	9/21/1999 12:04:00 PM
From: Ali Chen	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1574848

PB, re <Micron - no RAMBUS> First, <The article Ali posted> It was Steve who posted this important article first, not me :) <It'll be curious to see how Micron does with this strategy.> I think you are misguided very much here. Let see from the article: "Memory is always one step ahead of processors," Reynolds says. ...... "System memory performance will grow over time as software is designed to take advantage of faster memory speeds and processor frequencies increase," says Dan Fransisco, Intel spokesperson. From this it is apparent that those Intel guys just fell off the trees. In the context of the whole article - system performance - these statements looks rather idiotic. Maybe as a test vehicle for new process, the memory may be "ahead". But from the system performance point it is long known that memory is lagging far behind every processor for the last decade: cs.virginia.edu cs.virginia.edu For the second statement that faster processors will better utilize memory, I think they are overestimating the value of prefetching techniques (this is the only thing I can think of for performance increases). Maybe Kap can comment on this?