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To: Investor A who wrote (22146)	12/18/1997 12:38:00 PM
From: FJB	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

Fuchi, Most DRAM makers are attempting to phase out production of EDO. In Q1 or Q2 there will be no premium for SDRAM. The premium is very small RIGHT NOW. Bob

To: Investor A who wrote (22146)	12/18/1997 5:10:00 PM
From: Forrest Norrod	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 33344

Fuchi, Basically we agree with Bob - SDRAM has essentially no price premium now, and indeed may be cheaper than EDO by Q2. The complexity and die area cost of supporting two optimized memory controllers wasn't worth it. Also, the "GXm" chip is four layers of metal. Forrest

To: Investor A who wrote (22146)	12/18/1997 11:59:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 33344

Fuchi, Unless, MediaGXm is 128-bit data path as MXi. Then, it would really surprise me. I think Microprocessor Report said that MediaGXm will have the same pinout as MediaGX. This I think eliminates the possibility of 128-bit memory access. But doesn;t the move to 4-layer process add 33% additional real estate, assuming the die stays the same? I don't think MMX would take all this space. One thing that would really help MediaGXm is a little bit more L1 cache. 32K or even 64K. Joe