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To: Paul Engel who wrote (152811)	12/18/2001 4:32:13 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, Re: "IS the 533 MHz bus scheduled for 1066 Mhz RAMBUS memory exclusively? Or will Intel have a dual channel 266 MHz DDR chip set?" I don't think Intel has anything besides single channel DDR266 and PC800 RDRAM on the roadmap for the 533MHz front side bus next year. Others like VIA and SiS will try to get 533MHz front side bus paired with single channel DDR333. Sure there will be a small bottleneck, but I bet the performance will be a little better. I think that there is a big opportunity for some chipset providers to offer a dual channel DDR board for the Pentium 4. I'm sure VIA and SiS are working hard at beating the others to market, but I'm not sure if we'll see anything in 2002. PC1066 RDRAM is also a mystery. Intel cancelled Tulloch, and I don't think the i850E will support it, either. Maybe that's why SiS has been in discussions with Rambus about a memory license. I hate to say it, but next year the one major thing holding the Pentium 4 back will be a memory bus to give it the bandwidth it needs. It's kind of sad, really, but we may not see the true potential until 2003. wbmw