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To: Elmer who wrote (70999)	2/7/2002 10:22:30 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 275872

"The response was basically "don't ask"" And similar responses were given when the "Fairchildren" left the nest...

To: Elmer who wrote (70999)	2/8/2002 12:41:52 AM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Elmer, Back during the Rambus debates, my opinion was that Timna had a potential of taking the best advantage of Rambus memory, because of the integrated memory controller. The combination of serial interface 16 bit, feeding a more of a parallel 64bit FSB in the traditional implementation is basically the worst of both worlds. I believe that Timna had a potential of good memory performance (assuming it was not intentionally crippled). I don't know about clock speeds, but somehow I have serious doubt that Timna matched or exceeded Coppermine. It seems that a big chunk of the company (Intel) was force-marched to get Coppermine to 1 GHz and to believe that the team in Israel did it with ease, while carrying additional baggage on CPU die, is hard to believe. Joe