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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Joe NYC who wrote (41836)	5/9/2000 1:54:00 PM
From: jim kelley	Respond to of 93625

"Intel performance as far as quality and reliability of the chipsets and motherboards has suffered since Intel jumped on the RMBS bandwagon." Problems frequently occur during product transitions. "The problem described in the pdf document has nothing to do with speed of the processor, FSB, multiplier, or any combination of the three." I did not say it did. I also did not say it did not. "the ratio between the speed of the CPU and memory used to be 1:1. It has been going up since then, not down. Memory is not catching up. It's falling behind." The term "speed" is too vague to be used for engineering. For more precision, we have to resort to various bandwidth and latency definitions throughout the memory hierarchy. So your comment on the ratio is also imprecise. There has been a temporary improvement in the ratio's for the Pentium III systems. Willamette another jump forward in processor clock rate and will alter the ratios again. By memory, I presume you mean main memory. It appears cache memory has been doing fairly well lately. It is clear that the DRAM cell has not improved much in quite a while. I am glad you are here to join the rest of us idiots. I think you will feel at home finally.... :)