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To: Mike Magee who wrote (81859)	4/10/2002 6:23:12 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Hi Mike Magee; Here's a couple predictions: (1) Springdale is a DDR Intel chipset, it has nothing to do with RDRAM. (2) You'll never admit your mistake any more than you admitted it when you blew your call that Brookdale wasn't going to use PC2100 back in May of last year: In other news, Intel has told its PC customers that PC266 DDR (double data rate) memory will not be supported in its up and coming Brookdale chipset for the desktop Pentium 4 family. This message, apparently, was delivered by Peter MacWilliams, an Intel fellow, who has often claimed that Moloch-originated RIMMs offer ultimately far better performance than any species of DDR. 213.219.40.69 By contrast, here's my post showing timing diagrams that proved that Intel would support PC2100: From the above timing diagram, it is clear that even if the Intel engineers convert to a 100MHz clock domain the times required to transfer a cache line for the various technologies will be: PC800 20ns PC2100 30ns PC1600 40ns PC133 60ns In other words, for cache lines, PC2100 provides a 33% performance improvement over PC1600, and PC800 is 50% over PC2100 and 100% over PC1600. The advantage of PC2100 will be enough to entice Intel to support the stuff. #reply-16044647 What Intel told you last year about PC2100 and Brookdale was in error. Since you're not an engineer you didn't know to straighten out the issue. Heck, I wouldn't have if I hadn't written out the timing diagrams. But that's not an option for you, you can only report the news. I don't mean to needle. It's not just that you're not a design engineer and I am. It's that it's simply not possible for one journalist to be a deep expert on the whole wide world of electronics. Even if you did know which end of a NAND gate is the output, or how to use an LA, the industry is too big for you to be perfectly accurate in reporting on it. Don't take this as a critique. You're spread too thin to be perfectly accurate, but your competition is spread thinner, or, more likely, started out thinner to begin with. It's just not possible for amateur engineers to separate the wheat from the chaff so don't try. -- Carl