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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (33860)	11/4/1999 1:25:00 PM
From: richard surckla	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Ten: >>Are you following me here?<< Yes, as a matter of fact I am, but I don't know what ECC is?

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (33860)	11/4/1999 1:58:00 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Hi Tenchusatsu; Re "With 32-bit chips, you only need two, but the net sum has to be 64 bits. RDRAM, however, only requires at least one chip." Two notes on this. (1) Actually, I believe that 64-bit wide DDR SDRAM chips are going to exist very soon, running at 200MHz, (400MHz effective). My guess is that they already exist and working samples were shown to Nintendo. It's the interface that is replacing Rambus on the new Nintendo Playstation. I discussed this in #reply-11801288 . Here is the quote from EE-Times: The DRAM will be "an application-specific memory" with a data transfer rate of 3.2 Gbytes/ second-presumably, based on the emerging DDR II specification-and dedicated for use in Dolphin, said Keiichi Shimakura, associate senior vice president of NEC. techweb.com (2) Given that most of the excitement about Rambus is about the desktop PC industry, and given that that industry seems to need user insertable memory (which I think will disappear soon enough), we really need to talk about how many RDRAM does it take to populate a RIMM. While it is true that one could populate a RIMM with just a single RDRAM, that hasn't yet been done. The smallest number of RDRAM per RIMM as validated by Intel, (last time I looked) was 4. This is an indication that granularity is at least a factor of four away from the current state of the art. -- Carl