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To: Joe NYC who wrote (19878)	11/21/2000 2:26:25 PM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

<Joe: The main claim to fame of Rambus has been it's headroom:> Despite the hilarity of the link you provided (of your own composition ;)), I don't think the same applies to the definition of "headroom" that, at least, I used. I cannot speak for Boris and his "Itanium headroom", of course. [all this headroom speak is making me think of an old show I used to like... Max Headroom or something... oh well] When I claimed that "P4 has much, much more headroom [than PIII]", I was referring to P4 the architecture, not any actual specific chip. It is, of course, of immense importance to a company like Intel, that their brand new chip can be ramped [in frequency] appropriately for the foreseeable future. Considering that their old chip, the venerable P6 core, is rather stuck around the 1GHz mark, any frequency "headroom" of the P4 is rather important. -fyo