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To: richard surckla who wrote (44074)	6/11/2000 2:51:00 PM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Seriously......What has really bothered me as a non-technically inclined person during the past year has been the following: 1. If DDR is such a better, simpler, more fab/oem/customer friendly technology, cheaper, easier to build and install, etc. why hasn't it evolved more quickly? I understand research has been done since at least the mid-nineties. Something just does not compute. Reminds me of the joke about the saleman on his wedding night who spent the entire period sitting on the side of the bed telling his bride how great it was going to be. 2. With the power of the seven dramurai behind the DDR drive, shouldn't VIA and others be pouring every dollar of research and development into this cash cow, can't miss product line? If they are not, why not? If they are, and they can't produce a working chipset at this point there must be technical issues flaring up to which they do not yet have answers. Hey, Rambus understands. Rambus sympathizes. They've been there too. Something just does not smell right here.

To: richard surckla who wrote (44074)	6/11/2000 2:51:00 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Re: VIA to sell, WHERE THE HELL ARE DDR CHIPSETS?... T-Shirts! English translation from: translator.go.com Computex: AMD760 in the first test run Officially there is not the AMD760-Chipsatz for the Athlon yet at all. Who looked around on the Computex attentively, could however with some board manufacturers already times a first view of prototype boards throw. Officially this was not allowed to occur, but behind the famous curtain in such a way some showed its boards in function. Systems with up to two double DATA rate SDRAM modules full-led first test runs with some producers already once. With a short test the chip record proved as for early prototypes already quite stably and also the performance was tidy. According to rumors the core comes from ALI; however neither AMD nor ALI wanted to commentate that. As also is: For the autumn in any case exciting running between the RAM bus systems still favored by Intel is and from AMD, ALI and VIA supported GDR platforms in the house. So that it does not come during the introduction of the new technique to bottlenecks with the supply of suitable memory modules, all large producers develop at present feverful. Some, as for instance Apacer, the MEMORY division of Acer, can supply samples already now. The chip and CPU manufacturer VIA, a relevant wortfuehrer of the GDR parliamentary group, expressed themselves for a type certifying of GDR components as assistance for board and module manufacturers. For the boards, which are based on VIA Chipsaetzen, the enterprise wants to take over certifying. So it is to be guaranteed that only perfect Designs come on the market