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To: richard surckla who wrote (34194)	11/9/1999 11:56:00 PM
From: Allen champ	Respond to of 93625

Micron claims benchmark shows DDR DRAM meets advanced requirements Semiconductor Business News (11/09/99, 03:29:56 PM EDT) BOISE, Idaho--Micron Technology Inc here said today that an internal demonstration platform of its Double Data Rate SDRAM showed ?significant advantages? in performance benchmark testing over other high-bandwidth solutions--a veiled reference to Rambus DRAM, which has been the focus lately of industry wrangling. Micron has not ruled out supporting Direct Rambus RDRAM, the technology backed fiercely by Intel Corp. until recent technical problems forced it to temper that support (see Oct. 28 story). But it is throwing just as much support at DDR DRAM and PC133 because it believes each has advantages for particular markets and applications. ?With the DRAM market segmenting and DRAM technology becoming increasingly complex, Micron has begun focusing on ways to help its customers implement new high-performance DRAM products,? said Jeff Mailloux, Micron's director of DRAM marketing. He said Micron would follow the dictates of customers and deliver Rambus DRAM, DDR DRAM, or PC133 DRAM as quickly as it is able to respond (see Aug. 30 story). In Micron's tests, PC266 DDR SDRAMs function at 266 megabits per second and provide system-level bandwidth of 2.1 gigabytes per second, which is the PC2100 standard. Micron's platform used PC2100 dual inline memory modules (DIMMs). In StreamD benchmark testing, the DDR SDRAM platform achieved an average CPU-to-DRAM throughput of 514 megabytes per second. In the Intel Platform Bandwidth testing, the DDR SDRAM platform (using a Diamond Multimedia Viper 770 Ultra TNT2 AGP video card) achieved over 46 frames per second in DRAM-to-AGP bandwidth. Micron used its own Samurai DDR chip set in the reference platform. However, Mailloux said Micron is working with other chip set makers to promote the market for PC266. "Micron isn't in the chip set business. We only used our Samurai because it was readily available and could help us demonstrate the high performance of DDR," he added. Mailloux said the tests confirm that DDR SDRAM delivers the high-bandwidth, low-latency performance required by advancing microprocessors and graphics subsystems. "Our Integrated Products Group developed the DDR SDRAM platform as a reference design that our customers could use in designing DDR systems," said Mailloux. "In testing this product, we have demonstrated very strong system-level performance, validating DDR SDRAM as an ideal solution for multiple PC segments." Micron will be demonstrating its DDR reference platform at Comdex in Las Vegas next week, aimed at garnering support among server, workstation and high-end desktop OEMs, said Mailloux. He expected the first OEM products using DDR PC266 SDRAMs in all three sectors will be introduced in the first half of 2000.

To: richard surckla who wrote (34194)	11/10/1999 1:35:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Richard, <Dan you are really getting to be old hat. You were singing the same song -30 pts. ago. Same melody, different words.> LOL!!! I'm telling you guys, the anti-Rambus FUD still has a lot of gas left. And the re-release of the 820 isn't going to silence the FUD, either, just like the recent 25 to 30 point run-up didn't drive it away. There are a lot of potential events and developments coming in the next few months which might have a negative effect on RMBS stock. I can't say that I'm sure, but I just have a hunch, especially as PC133 momentum builds. Tenchusatsu