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To: Scumbria who wrote (40776)	4/25/2000 5:14:00 PM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Scumbria, DDR is able to deliver high bandwidth without all the cost and complexity associated with very high clock speeds. Your latest responses re: server usage of DDR/RDRAM and the response above seem to be getting less and less credible. Yes, there are costs and complexity with high speed signals, but that's where Rambus has spent all their time solving the problems. Vendors have a pre-defined design for the entire memory system. DDR, on the other hand, as has been described by the memory manufacturers, is a "chip-level" solution and the problems with integrating those into a cohesive memory system are going to be significant. Even AMD covered their a** in their press release with disclaimers about the possible quality problems. That agrees with Sony's statement about DDR as well as Intel's. So AMD and Intel say it may be unstable. You may have a different definition of unstable, but you can't argue with disclaimers from both companies. And this "unstableness" will have to be solved with cost and complexity (if it was an easy fix, it wouldn't be called "unstable" by everyone, would it?). Dave