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To: Ali Chen who wrote (38969)	3/29/2000 12:43:00 AM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 93625

Hi again Ali Chen; Re that quad memory device... It seems to me that there isn't a hell of a lot of reason to go to quad x, much less higher. For those who didn't catch your sardonic comment, the fact is that double rates end up with high and low pulse times on the data bus that match the clock. This is good enough. A 4x design would end up with data lines that had transitions at twice rate of the clock lines. Given that you can send a bunch of data lines for only one clock line, there really isn't much reason for optimizing past DDR. One interesting development would be to send the data by some sort of serial encoding/decoding without any clock lines at all. If you used a 5/4 encoding scheme, you would only take a 25% hit versus a design with a separate clock, but you would have an interface that would be quite a bit simpler. Of course the latency would be nasty... My guess for an answer to your question re RMBS and the non-PC market. The company is obviously going to suggest that they have as glorious a future in other branches of electronics as they have had in memory. In other words, having already done enough damage to Intel to give AMD enough time to completely catch up with Intel, and having pissed off GTW enough that they were driven back to AMD, and having been the cause of Intel being unable to supply enough chips to Dell to avoid them having a really lousy quarter, Rambus will now attempt to destroy T. Help!!! Rambus has got a hold of my engineering department and I can't get a product out of them!!! -- Carl