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To: jim kelley who wrote (43152)5/29/2000 9:50:00 PM
From: richard surckla  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 93625
 
Yes Jim, I couldn't have said it better myself!<VBG> You know, the more FUD that I see the better I feel. When the FUD stops then that will bother me. Right now they are all in overkill mode. Something has really rattled their cages.



To: jim kelley who wrote (43152)5/29/2000 10:19:00 PM
From: Bill Jackson  Respond to of 93625
 
Jim, In effect you say that different people can make their memory look good and Rambus look bad.
It looks as if Rambus is better in theory and the learning curve is what troubles proplr now....they cannot make real world goods work as theory predicts and what lab shows. The impact of this is the low yield and higher price of Rambus.
One hopes they will solve those problems nefore the other memory types evolve to beat it because they are not standing still either and are at a more advanced point on their learning curve...and possibly at the end of their development curve??
As to making the most of the initial peneltie aspect of Rambus latency....why does he not test them both in a set of parametric curves that go from the worst case(never a sequential cache hit) to the best case(all sequential hits).
In that case if he goes in say 6 different steps you will see Rambus start at the back and advance until it leads.
This will also show where it;s strentghs lie....ie not in server apps, but in Video apps. Others will be scattered and you will have to choose the best ram for the app, indicating that at best Rambus will get only a portion of the businees....and maybe a small portion.

Bill



To: jim kelley who wrote (43152)5/29/2000 10:57:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 93625
 
Jim,

RDRAM has slightly higher "intitial latency" and much lower "average latency" than SDRAM or DDR DRAM.

Sure it does.

programs sometimes mysteriously work better when the cache is turned off

Sure they do.

Typically, a instruction cache miss will produce a 64 bit read.

Really?

Do you just make this stuff up as you go along?

Scumbria


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