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To: Charles R who wrote (78477)	11/3/1999 1:00:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1575421

Chuckles - Re: "RDRAM today is in a funny situation. It is a good technology for low granularity systems (lo-end PCs. games, etc) but at the same time it is currently too pricey for that segment. " Then why is RDRAM memory inside EVERY Nintendo 64 game machine ? Paul

To: Charles R who wrote (78477)	11/3/1999 1:07:00 PM
From: Goutam	Respond to of 1575421

Chuck, re: < AMD's management so far seems to have made a wise decision on this. They waited out RDRAM and put their energies on SDRAM/DDRDRAM so far. > I agree with you. AMD was able to shorten the technology gap between it and Intel by making a couple of wise technology choices - EV6 and staying with SDRAM. I also strongly believe AMD's Athlon system infrastructure decisions as well as the decision to use copper process and early support for DDRSDRAM will put AMD slightly ahead of Intel in certain areas in the year 2000. Hope the decision to extend X86 to 64 bit will also pan out in a similar fashion. Regards, Goutama