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To: Ali Chen who wrote (41000)	5/5/2000 3:14:00 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Hi Ali Chen; Re Latency. The following Hyundai link probably has the best analysis of PC100, DDR and Rambus latency that I've seen on the net. I don't think that it has been mentioned on the thread. (I couldn't find it in a search for the link.) Take a look at the timing diagrams: PC100 latency: 47ns Rambus 800MHz latency: 68-78ns DRAM PERFORMANCE ... IMPLICATIONS FOR SYSTEM PERFORMANCE PC100 and PC133 are excellent memories for today?s processors. Both products have enough bandwidth for the current system environment. They also both offer fast latencies. But in the near future processors will require more bandwidth than PC100 or PC133 can offer, so new technologies will be needed. DDR and Rambus have higher bandwidth capabilities that will be useful for these processors. Although, DDR and Rambus have very different latency characteristics. DDR will offer very high performance, not only because it has the bandwidth, but more importantly because its excels on initial latency -- the most important performance parameter. As a result, we can expect DDR to offer the higher performance on most real-world benchmarks. hea.com -- Carl P.S. I should note that Hyundai is the world's leading DRAM producer, in terms of quantity. They were the company that supplied the initial DDR for Nvidia's GeForce chipset. I am somewhat disappointed that I cannot find their DDR chips on their distributor, NuHorizon's web site as of yet. They've put out numerous press releases stating the DDR is the memory of the future recently. The thing that investors need to understand that Hyundai is an Intel qualified RDRAM maker, and once put out press releases expecting RDRAM to be the next memory standard. They turned.