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To: jim kelley who wrote (41928)	5/10/2000 1:54:00 AM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Hi jim kelley; This talk about DDR not scaling. I really don't know what it means... There is the small memory end, where high bandwidth is required for small amounts of memory. As time goes on, it is likely that a larger and larger percentage of general PCs will be able to fall under the small memory model. That is, the memory needed by the machine will be able to be contained in a small number of chips that aren't user installable. This is precisely the model where the 3D graphics cards are playing. And that is precisely where DDR has got its first design wins. And the second generation of design wins. With chipsets from multiple companies. The other end of the memory scaling rainbow is very large machines, which typically require very large amounts of memory. Total bandwidths required have to be quite large, but the bandwidth per chip is far lower. This would be the server end of the continuum, and DDR has that market as well. The only market where DDR has been suppressed is the one where Intel has a large percentage, the middle range. And that is where the fight will be this summer. The ends of the memory market are already DDR. -- Carl