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To: h0db who wrote (81835)	4/10/2002 4:34:40 PM
From: dumbmoney	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

The only chipset that could have remotely been called a "server" chipset is/was the i860 for Xeon. Already forgotten the i840? Finally, to somehow claim that the DEC EV-7/8 is some kind of Intel design is just passing weird (or dumb). You do have a bad memory. You wrote: "I've never heard Intel nor Rambus talk about RDRAM as server memory." Mentioning the Alpha 21364 is certainly responsive to that statement. Since each CPU has an integrated RDRAM controller, each CPU can have up to 2GB of memory all to itself--kind of like AMD's Hammer-- assuming that they are using a repeater or very dense RIMMs. With the E7 design, RDRAM is almost acting as L3 or L4 cache--avoiding cache competition on a multi-CPU platform. Complete nonsense, starting with the mistaken assumption that each CPU can support only 2GB.