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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (96647)	3/3/2000 8:07:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 1574595

What is interesting is to look at why Intel employees Rambus and where AMD plans/hints at it implementation. Intel, servers - handle high client traffic. Aside from the garbled sentence (why Intel employees Rambus?), this seems just wrong. Servers get SDRAM, because "that's what the customers want". As opposed to desktop customers, which I guess don't know any better than to want to pay 5x as much for memory. Beats me, maybe it'll only be 2x as much in a year. Cheers, Dan.

To: d[-_-]b who wrote (96647)	3/4/2000 1:44:00 AM
From: Goutam	Respond to of 1574595

Eric, You are assuming RAMBUS is an in-thing - just because its stock price is high. Yes, it has advantages. It also has glaring disadvantages - licensing fee and cost. <I realize AMD hasn't ridiculed Rambus - they need to incorporate new technology like the rest of the world.> Exactly, but Intel ain't the rest of the world. AMD doesn't need to implement the same new technology that Intel adopts. In the digital and software world, you can do a given thing in many ways (tim toady - TMTOWTDI - There's More Than One Way To Do It). AMD as well as many other companies are as good as Intel in picking new technologies. <What is interesting is to look at why Intel employes Rambus and where AMD plans/hints at it implementation.> There is no immediate need for AMD to come out with RAMBUS support just because Intel is doing it. It's not the only great thing out there. Actually, I see not committing to RAMBUS and pursuing DDR SDRAM at this time as an advantage for AMD. <Intel, servers - handle high client traffic.> Wrong example to show RAMBUS proliferation. <AMD, desktop to deal with 1/3 speed cache issues, to remain competitive with Willamette/Celeron for that matter.> 1/3 speed cache will be a moot issue in a couple of months. Celeron vs Athlon - keep dreaming. Remaining competitve with Willamette from the memory interface point of view - there will be other viable options by the time Willamette comes out - especially DDR SDRAM. IMHO, as far as AMD is concerned, the company will explore all the options and will provide the best price/preformance option based on the market demand. Goutama