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To: dumbmoney who wrote (33569)	11/3/1999 12:47:00 AM
From: dumbmoney	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Thinking long term (2+ years) for a minute...I don't know what the "next next" generation of PC memory will be, but I'm quite sure it won't be 16 bits wide. 64+ bits is easy, pins get cheaper, and bandwidth needs grow. It's a mystery to me why Intel opted for a narrow memory bus. Multiple narrow channels on multiple RIMMs are not cost effective compared with a single wide channel on a single module (where a single chip doesn't have to provide the full width, but it could). (quoting myself) One other point. A wide memory bus provides greater bandwidth per pin, other things equal, than multiple narrow buses because the control pins aren't duplicated (well, some are, but not all of them).