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To: Jim Patterson who wrote (48729)	6/23/1998 2:54:00 PM
From: Meathead	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 176388

RE: How does RDRAM fit into the picture. I know what it is, but how will it be taken advantage of? It will eventually supplant all other memory technologies on the PC. Every application known to man benefits from faster memory. Will there be a memory bus in the same way as AGP. There already is, and always has been, an electrically separate memory bus. Traditionally, memory busses have run at the same speed as the host bus. This does not have to be the case and won't be with RAMBUS. Will the whole MB speed up to 200-400MHZ ? No... not directly as a result of RDRAM... again, it's a separate bus. We should see the host bus increase to 200Mhz within 3 years however. Will RDRAM PC be like having 128MB of cache memory? Yep. For example, PII 400Mhz slot 1 architecture has a backside bus (L2 cache) frequency of 1/2 the core. That's 8bytes x 200Mhz = a bandwidth of 1.6GB/sec which is equal to single channel RAMBUS. RAMBUS is scaleable... dual channel = 3.2GB/sec and on and on, I think you can guess where this is heading. Will any single manufacture, Box maker like DELL or DRAM maker like MU have a substantial advantage for any reason I would not think of? Yes, of the boxmakers, Dell will have the advantage. They will generally be first to market with this new technology, they will be first to market with each incremental improvement and they will be first to offer new price points as component prices fall and certain aspects of the technology move to the mature side of the curve.... all because of their business model. MEATHEAD