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To: Scumbria who wrote (37202)	4/24/2001 12:46:28 PM
From: dale_laroy	Respond to of 275872

"Too bad Intel didn't put an integrated RDRAM controller on P4." Intel is in a unique position. They are bound to DRDRAM by contract, so they need to enable secondary vendors to provide DDR SDRAM solutions. Assuming that vendors such as AMD can keep their hands off the rest of the core when they change the memory controller, it should take less time to get an integrated solution to market than an external one. If AMD had equipped Athlon with an integrated SDRAM memory controller, they could have gotten a variant with an integrated DDR SDRAM controller to market faster than they got the DDR SDRAM 760 chipset to market. However, they would have probably elected to tie the move to an integrated DDR SDRAM controller to the change to Palomino, thus delaying Palomino as well as the migration to DDR SDRAM.