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To: Orion who wrote (39422)	4/11/2000 4:39:00 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 93625

Hi Orion; Re thermal and acoustic issues in computers... I would prefer to have a more or less silent home computer to having a fast one, but I seem to be the only one of my buddies who feels this way. We argued over thermal issues for quite some time on this thread. #reply-11359666 RDRAM is a power hog, and this is an issue that just hasn't been fixed. Jdassoc may talk about how RDRAM doesn't need very many varieties of chips cause they always use the same type, but doesn't anyone find it kind of odd that the chips have been out for such a long time and no one has announced a low power version of it? Nobody is developing RDRAM parts anymore, the game is over. Last summer, when it became clear that RDRAM was going to have a 15% area penalty over SDRAM, there was a joint meeting of memory makers and Rambus with the issue on the table of how to reduce the cost of RDRAM. Where are the new chips that would result from this? How come I haven't seen even a preliminary spec sheet for them? Where are the SO-DIMMs that are supposed to be the next RDRAM module type? Come on you lazy dudes, get me some links to the new RDRAM chips, and links from the memory makers, not links to Rambus. Prove to me that this technology isn't dead. -- Carl P.S. And why is it that Via is going so wholeheartedly in favor of DDR? They have a substantial percentage of the Intel chipset market right now, surely they can't be so stupid as to ignore the greatest advance to memory design ever?