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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (78695)	11/5/1999 1:26:00 AM
From: Charles R	Respond to of 1574098

Tenchusatsu, I just visited Ace's ( aceshardware.com )and found this: "Industry News from RWT KH Yeap Thursday, November 04, 1999 (06:14 PM Pacific Standard Time) The venerable Dean Kent at RWT has once again treating us with one nice dose of his computer industry news . Among things Dean reveals this time around is that Intel will re-re-re-re-re-introduce i820 on November 15 and that Intel has a "next-gen DDR chipset called DDR (codenamed Amador). Product will support PC133 and DDR, with the product supporting a 133FSB version coming out in April, while faster 200Mhz FSB will be available 9/00 timeframe." Dean also projects that Athlon-750 Mhz will debut soon after the i820 boards hit the street. From what I have heard from my own source, in her own words, "Athlon 750 Mhz will definitely be out for Christmas, but don't expect it to come out as soon as Comdex." Anyway, for bunch of other goodies, do go check out what Dean has to say . " So, I went to the Real World Technologies site ( realworldtech.com ) to see what Yeap was talking about and here is what I found: "One 'minor' issue will be the board design. The recommended changes will mean higher costs for manufacturers (and therefore higher retail prices), as well as reduced flexibility for the user. If some manufacturers decide to ignore these guidelines for cost containment may do so at the expense of stability - so beware! The technical requirements say the board must have a 'consistent margin of >48 mV, with the following guidelines provided for increasing margin: Vref divider resistor - change from 2% to 1% Vterm minimum - raise from 1.71 to 1.80 volts Vdd power delivery - improve through better decoupling Avoid low margin configurations through BIOS restrictions Increase board to 6 layers " This is more changes than I was anticipating. If this is true RDRAM could take off even slower than I expected it to. Can anyone else confirm the changes and comment on them? Thanks, Chuck