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To: froland who wrote (66213)	2/19/2001 8:19:11 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Froland, Had the MM's been looking forward, they might have developed a high bandwidth memory technology years ago. It was pretty clear from the i820 benchmarks that high bandwidth memory was of no value to a CPU, until P4 came out. And even for P4 most benchmarks look rather poor, indicating that only a small subset of the software base can take advantage of high bandwidth memory. Most programs fit rather well into the CPU cache hierarchy, so high bandwidth memory is rather a don't care for most CPU users. P4 would be a complete waste of money for a typical business user or Internet surfer. DDR is coming out at just about the right time, and Intel has suffered a lot for jumping the gun with Rambus. Look what happened to Timna. Scumbria