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To: Road Walker who wrote (109001)8/30/2000 3:03:53 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
John,

Which applications would benefit from very high memory bandwidth?

Soft DVD is the most common example. Applications which require a lot of processing on a large amount of sequential data, will do well on Willy's bus and SSE execution unit.

Some graphics applications will also require high memory bandwidth to the CPU.

My guess is that most of these types of problems will ultimately be solved with special purpose hardware, rather than in an expensive general purpose CPU.

Scumbria



To: Road Walker who wrote (109001)8/30/2000 4:27:38 PM
From: Joe NYC  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 186894
 
John,

Which applications would benefit from very high memory bandwidth?

I believe database servers equipped with a ton of RAM would benefit. Rambus however has a limit on # of chips per channel, which means that it is unlikely that RDRAM platform will be used in high end servers.

For this market, Intel is working with ServerWorks on DDR chipsets for Foster.

Joe


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