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To: Jdaasoc who wrote (35962)	12/19/1999 4:52:00 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Re: DDR, if it was such good technology why would it be 6 months behind RDRAM... When, a year ago, Rambus looked likely to be a volume available, slightly more expensive than SDRAM technology for this summer, Intel announced that it would not support DDR in any of its chips or chipsets. So DDR hibernated - there was nowhere for it to be used. Then it became clear that rambus was going to be late and expensive, and AMD made it clear that it would use DDR. So the various DDR (nee SLDRAM) projects were restarted, with volume slated for late Q1. Dan PS. You might want to take a quick look at: micron.com Where they show the first production availability as 1Q00 for both DDR and Rambus. You're half right though, the 1Q DDR parts are only 64mb, with the 128mb DDR parts sampling 1Q and shipping 2Q. Of course, since non-rambus DRAM doesn't have limit of 32 chips/channel, that's not very important. Why do you refer to a lag of 1 month or no months as 6 months? if it was such good technology why would it be 6 months behind RDRAM on Micron's road maps. 128 Mbit RDRAM chips are expected from Micron in 1Q while 128 MBit DDR chips are not expected until 3Q