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To: Scumbria who wrote (99082)	3/20/2000 3:03:00 PM
From: Jim McMannis	Respond to of 1575617

RE:"No kidding. DRDRAM costs 600% of SDRAM, and doesn't appear to enhance benchmark scores relative to SDRAM. Compare that to AMD, which offers a superior product at a lower cost." Must be all part of the Intel love fest. When the big boys decide to love Intel and it's associates, they rush in blind. I'm wondering if Intel can hold it today... Jim

To: Scumbria who wrote (99082)	3/20/2000 3:16:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 1575617

But Scumbria, the Athwipe guy has a solution to the Rambus problem: For Desktop and Workstation applications, Intel is developing a chip set called Tehama with a 400 MHz Data Rate, employing TWO RAMBUS channels. (from Message 13241428 ,an SI post of the day no less). So, that way, you can pay 6x as much for your memory twice, or something. Personally, I'm still quite intrigued by the 128 wide DDR nvidia thing from the x-box, I wonder if nvidia will be allowed to ship an Athlon version for PCs, when the inevitable software slips with Microsoft happen. I doubt it , but it would be nice. Cheers, Dan.