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To: dumbmoney who wrote (35942)	12/18/1999 6:16:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

DM, <My next prediction is that Intel will support DDR.> That's not much of a prediction, Nostradamus, given that Intel already said they'll support DDR in the future. <The benchmark results confirm it as inevitable.> Actually, the OEMs are pushing Intel to support DDR, at least in servers, because of cost considerations, not because of performance. I think it's widely accepted that DDR will be cheaper than RDRAM to an extent. Even a small difference in price-per-megabyte translates to a sizable difference in a multi-GIGABYTE server. The performance of DDR is still up in the air. I don't think the article on Tom's Hardware Guide is giving us a detailed picture regarding DDR's performance characteristics. In fact, I'm not really sure that article is trustworthy, given that Tom has always tried to put Rambus in a negative light. I still remember the "preview" of the 820 Camino chipset that Tom published earlier this year. That "preview" made the performance of RDRAM and Camino look a lot worse than the actual performance we're seeing today. And now Tom is showing tests that make DDR look slightly faster than RDRAM. Surprise surprise. Tenchusatsu