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To: blake_paterson who wrote (43083)	5/27/2000 12:45:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

BP, 2.1GB/s of memory bandwidth isn't enough for next year's computing platforms. How is DDR going to get past this limit? 2 channel RDRAM is already there and June's RMBS demo will increase the difference between the 2 technologies. ServerWorks has 2 channel PC-133 SDRAM. There is nothing stopping them from doing the same in their upcoming DDR chipsets. In fact, I would be surprised if their Foster chipset doesn't do just that. Joe

To: blake_paterson who wrote (43083)	5/27/2000 1:42:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 93625

Blake, 2.1GB/s of memory bandwidth isn't enough for next year's computing platforms. What do you base this statement on? We will soon see embedded DRAM, and increasingly large SRAM caches minimizing the need for off-chip bandwidth. Scumbria

To: blake_paterson who wrote (43083)	5/27/2000 2:07:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

BP, 2.1GB/s of memory bandwidth isn't enough for next year's computing platforms. How is DDR going to get past this limit? 2 channel RDRAM is already there Here is an evaluation of pre-release Micron Samurai (DDR) vs. dual channel RDRAM (840): simmtester.com Summary In the overwhelming majority of cases, DDR exceeds the performance of dual channel RDRAM, at times by a very substantial margin. There are several cases where there is very little difference, and finally a few where the 840 pulls ahead by a small margin. Based on this rather broad mix of applications and benchmarks, Micron?s single channel (64-bit) DDR implementation must be declared the performances winner over Intel?s dual channel RDRAM platform. How many channels will RDRAM need to equal single channel DDR? Or will RDRAM ever overcome the latency penalty to equal DDR? Stay tuned... Joe