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To: Petz who wrote (37028)	9/14/1998 4:17:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1580025

There doesn't seem to be any correlation between price and cache size. Well of course not. Price is based on market demand, not necessarily cost of components. My point is that it's pretty tough for me to believe that an extra 512K of SRAM chips isn't going to knock off more than a good chunk off the margin. Here's a thought. If 512K of SRAM only costs about $5, maybe I could try and work on a platform which replaced SDRAM entirely with SRAM. Sure, 64M of SRAM would cost $640, but surely this can be but a small price to pay for increased performance? (Yes, this is a highly impractical theory, perhaps impossible without raising the latencies of the SRAM to SDRAM levels, which would defeat the benefits of SRAM in the first place.) Thanks for all your thoughts, Petz. Tenchusatsu