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To: Joe NYC who wrote (40351)	4/19/2000 2:33:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 93625

Jozef, Via's PC133 chipset beats 820/RDRAM in some benchmarks, and loses to others. It is Intel's assertion that in the long run, RDRAM will beat out PC133 in most benchmarks. My opinion of the 815 chipset is that it will run slightly faster than Via's chipset, but not enough to shake Intel's commitment to RDRAM. I don't think Intel will artificially cripple the performance of 815. That would be building the house of cards that I already talked about, which will no doubt come tumbling down sooner or later. Tenchusatsu

To: Joe NYC who wrote (40351)	4/19/2000 5:02:00 PM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Joe, Didn't I just read here that the next generation of RDRAM is going to double the pin count? I don't think anyone claimed that Intel is moving to the next version of RDRAM anytime soon. I'm sure Intel would rather get production levels of the current form up so that the come prices down. The point about quadrupling the performance of RDRAM is to demonstrate the headroom that RDRAM has. They can improve the speed and they can make the datapath wider. How soon do you think we'll see DDR-800? (which will have to focus solely on speed improvements since they can't make the buss any wider). Dave