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To: Glenda King who wrote (33851)	11/4/1999 12:23:00 PM
From: Don Green	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Glenda While you are providing all of the valued insight.. Any word on your Rambus entry timeframe? regards Don

To: Glenda King who wrote (33851)	11/4/1999 1:46:00 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 93625

Hi Glenda King; You may find the following interesting... An SDRAM interface has 64 or 72 data pins, plus assorted control pins. What scares people is that big number, 64. Seems like a lot of pins to solder down, doesn't it? IBM is planning on putting 8 SDRAM interfaces into a single multi-chip module. That's a total of 512 data pins (before taking into account ECC). The full package has 5000 pins, and holds four chips. So each chip presumably has something like 1200 pins. When you look at numbers of this size, 64 doesn't seem like such a big number. Here's a link from the IBM web site. Pages 2-3 are the most significant: chips.ibm.com -- Carl