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To: blake_paterson who wrote (48971)	8/4/2000 7:29:32 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Blake, <This is one of the reasons you would want it in a PC as well, because a standard chipset doesn't have much [logic] to it, and if you were to put a 250-pin simple chipset device on a 0.18u process you would be entirely pad-limited -- a waste of manufacturing resources.> This is a good point made by the poster on Yahoo. When Intel cranks out millions and millions of these chipset devices per quarter, and a lot of the silicon is being taken up by the pads, that does indeed waste manufacturing resources. Hence Intel had a major reason to go gung-ho with the low pin-count RDRAM technology, despite the fact that implementation has been a lot harder than anyone realized. Tenchusatsu