To: Jdaasoc who wrote (56008 ) 9/30/2000 2:33:37 PM From: mishedlo Respond to of 93625 AMI Members On Global Trail For DDR Roll ami2.com 9/21/00- A handful of AMI members companies are travelling round the world to be ambassadors for the new DDR memory. The event hosted by VIA Technologies will cover Taipei, Tokyo, Beijing, and Munich. This event has brought together the companies involved in DDR enablement to introduce DDR related technologies to the engineering community at each country it cover. At the opening of the VTF2000 conference in Taipei on Wednesday, WenChi Chen, CEO of VIA Technologies pronounced that the Internet world is driving us to new level in computing. We now not only have to work on the computing platform but also have to understand the communication that gets the information there. The pipe will be bigger than the platform itself. The landscape will demand higher memory bandwidth and performance. DDR will be the answer for the next few years. The 2 days event at the Taipei International Exhibit Center included half day of keynote and over 20 sessions of technology presentations. It drew a crowd of over 800 professionals at the opening. The key topics are DDR memory, new chipsets, supporting technologies and motherboard design. The schedule will be condensed into one day at the other three cities. AMI member companies participated are Samsung, Hyundai, Micron, Infineon, NEC, Kentron, and CST. They are led by Desi Rhoden, President of AMI and Chairman of the JEDEC Memory Committee. "A handful of AMI members companies are travelling round the world to be ambassadors for the new DDR memory." Still lobying as of today. "DDR will be the answer for the next few years." DDR is not out yet and the biggest proponents are pronouncing its death in a few years! LOL