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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (83046)	12/15/1999 8:56:00 AM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571039

Re: it's not an issue of marketing. If anything, it's just a PR issue... I've always found PR to be an integral part of marketing. >>>>>>>>Haven't you learned ANYTHING on the RMBS thread? EV7 will use Rambus is because of the high bandwidth-per-pin I think I learned something about pin costs from Carl's posts - he was pretty persuasive that pin costs were dropping very fast, so that this benefit of Rambus didn't overcome its drawbacks. >>>>>>>>the same effective bandwidth as 16 DDR channels (not peak, but it's well-known that DDR is less efficient than RDRAM at using bandwidth). I'm not going to rehash the "efficiency" claims again, but I'd like to know what network, disk i/o, or video technology you expect to absorb anything other than a burst from 16 Rambus channels. Is your goal the design of systems that swap blocks of memory back and forth all day? Dan