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To: jim kelley who wrote (39466)	4/9/2000 7:24:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Jim, RDRAM will become the memory of choice for platforms that can utilize their speed. What do you mean by speed? DDR has better latency characteristics, equivalent bandwidth characteristics, and costs less than DRDRAM. Does anyone on this thread dispute the previous sentence? Scumbria

To: jim kelley who wrote (39466)	4/9/2000 8:35:00 PM
From: gnuman	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Jim kelley, As the processing speeds on the 815 class machines increase the SDRAM will be replaced with RDRAM. Can you confirm that? Consider that the 815 will run at all PIII speeds (including 1 gHz) with PC133 DIMM's. And the 810/815 systems will be in the majority of PC's shipped for the next couple of years. Even the dual memory 820 will most likely be SDRAM based in the majority of systems. (From what I've read the 820 is being redesigned to improve SDRAM performance. I have to think this is a result of input from the box makers). Roadmaps aside, the solutions will continue to be market driven, and price/performance is a key issue. Bringing out these new chip sets in the second half of 2000 doesn't seem to fit the memory road map. Again, JMHO's

To: jim kelley who wrote (39466)	4/9/2000 8:58:00 PM
From: gnuman	Respond to of 93625

Jim kelley, a few more questions. Wasn't the original road map to go directly from PC100 to RAMBUS? Isn't the 815/PC133 a change to the chip set/memory road map? If so, what does this signify to you? TIA, Gene

To: jim kelley who wrote (39466)	4/10/2000 6:20:00 AM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 93625

Hi jim kelley; Re that Intel memory road map... Intel is in big trouble due to their decision to support only RDRAM quite some time ago. They are backing away from that decision as quickly as they can, but they are in a bit of a pickle. If they explained to customers today that RDRAM is a dead end, what do you think that would do to their sales of i820 and i840 systems? I guess a lot of people trust Intel to openly discuss their future memory plans without having the marketing people give their inputs. Having worked at a few large companies, and having observed Intel for years, I know that this is not the case. Some links: To remind people of how open Intel was with its RDRAM problems last year: ebnews.com Message 11362266 Intel being honest about when they would get the Camino problems fixed: Message 11380091 Back in October when the bussers thought Christmas was only a week away, I concluded that Micron knew something from their ad campaign. I was right on: Message 11430773 -- Carl