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To: Scumbria who wrote (103592)	4/11/2000 2:32:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1570557

Scumbria, <Is the Hublink a connection to SDRAM?> You're not the first person to think that. Actually, HubLink is the connection between north and south bridge in Intel's 800-series chipsets. It's a private 8-bit wide point-to-point interface running at 266 MHz. Other chipsets, such as Intel 440BX, AMD 750, and Via, use PCI for the north-south connection. Since Timna integrates the north bridge of the chipset among other things, the CPU itself has a HubLink port to the south bridge. <It doesn't seem that DRDRAM is a good match for a low cost system at this point in time.> That's why I think Timna will initially employ the RDRAM-to-SDRAM translator until RDRAM prices come down. Unfortunately, performance will be impacted, and the translator does defeat the purpose of integration somewhat. But Intel is more concerned with cost than performance, and adding the translator to a motherboard shouldn't be that costly. Tenchusatsu