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To: Paul Engel who wrote (78479)	11/3/1999 1:03:00 PM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1575399

<Then why is RDRAM memory inside EVERY Nintendo 64 game machine ?> If I am not mistaken, Nintendo has designed RDRAM out and DDRDRAM in for the next generation system.

To: Paul Engel who wrote (78479)	11/3/1999 1:12:00 PM
From: Goutam	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575399

Paul, re: < hen why is RDRAM memory inside EVERY Nintendo 64 game machine ? > Nintendo is switching to embedded VC DDRSDRAM in their future game box. Regards, Goutama

To: Paul Engel who wrote (78479)	11/3/1999 6:50:00 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 1575399

Hi Paul Engel; Re the Nintendo 64 game machine and RDRAM... The Nintendo 64 uses the previous version of RDRAM, it does not use "direct" RDRAM, which is also called DRDRAM, but is more usually referred to now as RDRAM. This confusion of the terminology undoubtedly confused many people. The original RDRAM was a reasonable, though difficult, engineering solution for machines needing very small amounts of very high bandwidth memory. The Direct RDRAM is an attempt at making a memory interface that is all things to all customers, and it is in the process of failing. (But man, did their stock move up today!) I think that support for DRDRAM has been the best thing for AMD that Intel could have done. In fact, I posted a statement to the effect that Intel was making a big mistake by deciding to support just a single memory type something like 3 years ago. In your experience at Intel, did you ever see them announce that they were going to support only a single memory type in the future? I'm interested in what you have to say about management's thinking on this. It seems to me that it is a way of risking that your designs will face allocation problems. One reason for doing that, I suppose, is that Rambus is so different from regular memory interfaces that you can't make a chipset support both standards well. On the other hand, it isn't that hard to make a chipset support SDRAM and DDR SDRAM at the same time. -- Carl