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To: Megs who wrote (28653)	2/19/1998 11:51:00 AM
From: Tim McCormick	Respond to of 53903

Megs, I was wrong, mea culpa. I confused cache memory with main memory. Yet the presence of embedded DRAM of as much as 2MB in ASICs for non-PC applications will dampen the growth in demand for low end chips. Non-PC demand for memory is expected to become a more significant portion of the total memory market and eDRAM will influence pricing in the future. This should have a marginal influence on capital spending requirements as older generations become unprofitable sooner. Thus eDRAM is a small issue. Tim

To: Megs who wrote (28653)	2/19/1998 2:01:00 PM
From: Steven Hsu	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 53903

300 Celsius, 572 Fahrenheit? Are you sure about this?

To: Megs who wrote (28653)	2/19/1998 10:51:00 PM
From: edward miller	Respond to of 53903

>>The CPU runs at temperatures approaching 300'C. Your >>DRAM will be toast at those temps. Please name your sources or explain your basis for such an outrageous claim. No chip can survive 300 Celsius operation, not CPU, not DRAM, not anything made in silicon. The implants move at that temperature, destroying the devices. From my experience, most parts specify maximum STORAGE temperature of 165 Celsius. That's not anything like operating temperature. And in case you don't know, CPU and DRAM processing is still silicon processing, basically the same thing, only with different twists. They all fail at about the same high junction temperatures. Ed Miller