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To: NickD who wrote (10631)	3/6/2000 6:54:00 PM
From: wily	Respond to of 14778

>>Awhile back, I read at tomshardware.com or sharkyextreme.com, that this is one hot setup - the i840 being much superior to the i820.<< I haven't read anything lately about the 840, but Rambus memory which has been outrageously expensive is supposed to start coming down in price. Not sure how soon. There was news recently that Tessera, a semi-equipment company has designed a new process that reduces packaging costs for RDRAM by 50%. Plus, towards the end of the year, Samsung has plans to start building "sealed" or "disposable" computers in the $200 price range that will use soldered-on RDRAMs. The hope/expectation of Samsung is that this will create a mass market for RDRAM which will in turn lower the price of manufacture and the price to the end user. All the above being a long way of saying that 840's might become competitive price/performance-wise sometime sooner or later. wily