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To: sylvester80 who wrote (55549)	9/27/2000 6:16:44 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 93625

Hi sylvester80; If you look carefully through the Sun documentation from back in October 1999, you will find a note where they said that their processor core was independent of the memory interface. The MAJC core is compatible with SDRAM, and it was the designers intention that it be easily adaptable to whatever memory type it needed to adapt to. <FUD Warning!> Given that it was in October '99 that it became obvious (to those of us in the business) that RDRAM was never going to come to parity in price with SDRAM, the timing of these delays in MAJC's release are beginning to smell an awful lot like a change in memory interface from RDRAM to DDR or SDRAM. <End FUD Warning!> Scumbria's point about the $200 RDRAM is valid, even if his pricing is a bit obscure. There has to be quite a large markup between cost of goods sold and retail in order for a product to pay for all the other stuff. Typical ratios would be around 3 for fairly high volume products. For high end products, the ratios have to go much higher. That is why a $500 Nvidia based graphics card only has about $120 worth of components on it. Two RDRAM chips at about $25 each increases the retail price of the product by about $200. -- Carl

To: sylvester80 who wrote (55549)	9/27/2000 6:38:35 PM
From: mishedlo	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

<<Sun also is working on a multimedia processor called MAJC that will be used in graphics cards, among other areas. The company has produced two generations of MAJC prototypes and has software running on the chips, Azhari said, but he declined to say when they would arrive. The UltraSparc III also has technology to improve the execution of Java software, Sun said. One source close to Sun, however, said new graphics cards using MAJC will arrive within the next year.">> Help me out here - that article was confusing about dates Is the SparcIII out now, or in DEC. Does it have RDRAM already. Or will it be out in DEC with RDRAM. How many of these babies do they sell? How many RDRAM chips each? I am dense sometimes. Explain the significance of: One source close to Sun, however, said new graphics cards using MAJC will arrive within the next year."