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To: Joe NYC who wrote (2995)	7/31/2000 10:16:02 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Translation of the press release: Junior station of Fujitsu Siemens of computer meets IT desires of the Kids / AMD based PC with special pupil often commodity Bath Homburg (ots) - punctual for the start of the new school year in some Lands of the Federal Republic offers Fujitsu Siemens of computer a new, specially PC adapted to pupils. The junior station is a PC, which is equipped by AMD, a unique software configuration and special services at particularly favourable prices with newest processor technology. With this new product Fujitsu Siemens of computer makes young humans the acces to the IT technique and to the Internet still easier. The particularly integrated software offers price advantage to the pupils and their parents compared with other PCS of similar efficiency of approximately 600, - DM. Among other things it offers dictionary beside the standard software (Office and Homeanwendungen) an integrated Langenscheidt for German and English. With the USM chronicle of world history and the USM dictionary 2000 data and facts of the starts of mankind up to the present become and also for 21. Century easily accessible. Additionally the pupils can select between the learning software of the two publishing houses Cornelsen and Heureka Klett. The junior station has T-Online an acces to the Internet. With the TLC Cyber Patrol - an Internet filter - can determine parents, on which sections of the entire Internet supply its children access to have been supposed. The junior station offers beyond that special services: With technical questions a Hotline is available for information. If the device should be nevertheless once defective, it is at home repaired. The junior station is from today on in two different versions available. The model with AMD Duron processor with 600 megahertz costs the Top model with a AMD Athlon processor with 800 megahertz 2299, - DM to 1899, - DM. The PCS are beyond that equipped with a 56K modem and active loudspeakers. The configurations in detail: FSC junior station D600: PC: AMD Duron(tm) 600 Minitower housing 64 MB SDRAM 10 GB fixed disk 48fach D-CRom-cDrive 3.5 " floppy disk drive 32 MB AGP diagram card 16 bits sound modem 56K asset loudspeaker multi-function keyboard Wheel mouse with mouse PAD Standard software: Ms Windows 98 ms Word 2000 ms Works 2000 ms Picture It ms Money ms Encarta world Atlas ms auto route express ms Game Marco Polo of large travel planners T-Online software anti-virus program FSC Home box 12 months suburb service in Germany Pupil often commodity: Langenscheidt dictionary the/end TLC Cyber Patrol - the Internet police TLC my body and I TLC planets, asterisks and comet USM chronicle of world history USM dictionary 2000 Cornelsen/Heureka Klett: two titles to the selection from a learning software assortment of more than 110 products Price: DM 1,899 recipients VK inclusive VAT. FSC junior station A800: PC: AMD Athlon(tm) 800 Minitower housing 64 MB SDRAM 20 GB fixed disk 48fach D-CRom-cDrive 3.5 " floppy disk drive 32 MB AGP diagram card 16 bits sound modem 56K asset loudspeaker multi-function keyboard Wheel mouse with mouse PAD Standard software: Ms Windows 98 ms Word 2000 ms Works 2000 ms Picture It ms Money ms Encarta world Atlas ms auto route express ms Game Marco Polo of large travel planners T-Online software anti-virus program FSC Home box 12 months suburb service in Germany Pupil often commodity: Langenscheidt dictionary the/end TLC Cyber Patrol - the Internet police TLC my body and I TLC planets, asterisks and comet USM chronicle of world history USM dictionary 2000 Cornelsen/Heureka Klett: two titles to the selection from a learning software assortment of more than 110 products Price: DM 2,299 recipients VK inclusive VAT. Further information under www.fujitsu siemens.de ots original text: Fujitsu Siemens of computer in the Internet investigatable: recherche.newsaktuell.de PRESS CONTACT: Barbara Eckrich Fujitsu Siemens of computer Siemensstr. 21 D-61352 bath Homburg Tel: +49 6172 188 7905 fax: +49 6172 188,647 email: presse@fujitsu siemens.com

To: Joe NYC who wrote (2995)	7/31/2000 10:47:10 AM
From: milo_morai	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

<font color=darkgreen>DDR-II, the ESDRAM based Rambus Killer? (HARDWARE) Posted By johan Monday, July 31, 2000 - 9:06:10 AM Our next memory guide will be published wednesday or with a bit of luck even sooner. However, I would like to quote from our yet unpublished part 2: "Ramtron found a more elegant solution. ESDRAM, a sort of cached DRAM, includes SRAM buffers. Those SRAM buffers contain the row data, and the controller can read those buffers instead of the sense amps (see part one to fully understand this). While the SRAM buffers are read, the sense amps can do precharge and refresh operations. In other words, those SRAM buffers can eliminate a latencies like the precharge latency (Precharge time (Trp)). And that is not all. Such SRAM buffers have lower CAS and RAS to CAS latencies, so if the buffers contain the right information, the critical word may be send in 5-6 cycles to the CPU instead of the 7 cycles that we have calculated for "normal" SDRAM. ESDRAM is also based on HSDRAM chips (HSDRAM is also developed by Ramtron) and can be clocked at higher speeds. ESDRAM offers little benefit for streaming applications (only slightly more bandwidth) but in most cases ESDRAM can offer a lot lower "critical word latencies". Why do I quote from an unpublished article? Because according to this document, DDR-II (the next generation of DDR SDRAM) will be based on ESDRAM! This means that DDR-II will offer high bandwidth combined with very low latencies. Combine this with the K8, which could have an integrated north bridge and you get even lower latencies and even higher bandwidth... I think I am going to add a small chapter to the second part. The next generation memory technology battle gets more interesting every day... aceshardware.com Carl I've not had the time to research RMTR but if true and RMBS can't touch them do to patents, this could crush RMBS Milo