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To: jim kelley who wrote (39074)	3/30/2000 5:01:00 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Hi all; I seem to recall FAEs talking about synchronous DRAM long, long, before the parts came on the market. Similar to DDR, they were talked about for years, especially by NEC and Samsung, I seem to recall, long before samples were available. The FAEs would regularly (and still) design engineers at companies that were major users to look at their "preliminary" or even "target" specifications. The idea is to get an idea early on as to how the users (i.e. design engineers) would respond to the product. The big advantage that SDRAM gave was its high bandwidth, relative to EDO/FPM. But SDRAM was talked about before EDO and FPM replaced standard DRAM. At that time, the high bandwidth DRAM devices were VRAM (video DRAM), which had an extra serial port on each chip. VRAM had timing requirements that were magnificently complicated, and that was the big complaint among engineers. We all wanted to use SDRAM due to the simplicity of its interface. I'll look around for some references as to when SDRAM started to sample, but it was a long time ago. If I find any, I'll link them to this post. -- Carl By the way, I had drinks with a couple FAEs this late afternoon. RDRAM is still quite dead. You guys just don't know it yet. Just like with SDRAM, design engineers are going to be aware of it long before the rest of the planet. This is normal. Fashion designers know what next years fabrics are going to be long before the rest of us figure it out too, same with memory designers.