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To: Paul Engel who wrote (37205)	9/18/1998 7:53:00 PM
From: Kevin K. Spurway	Respond to of 1572077

Paul, so far today you've posted 56 TIMES to SI!!!! This is staggering--and it's still only 4:45 out there on the west coast. Is your lathe broken or what? GET A LIFE. Kevin

To: Paul Engel who wrote (37205)	9/18/1998 9:04:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 1572077

Geez - Intel and AMD and Cyrix and Sun and DEC and SGI and everybody else must be REALLY STUPID - using SRAM on their CPUs instead of DRAM ! Take out a patent on your idea and sell it to these stupid, incompetent CPU manufacturers - and a Nobel Prize awaits you. Paul, You never cease to amaze me. It is fairly well known that single-processor systems are latency limited, thus Mendocino, Dixon, Sharptooth, etc. It is also well known that cache hit rates increase very little above 1MB for PC benchmarks. The big bottleneck is now DRAM latency. EDRAM has been around for years. The concept behind EDRAM was originally proposed by Hennesey and Patterson. pubs.cmpnet.com techexpo.com The ESDRAMs are aimed at serving specialty DRAM and fast SRAM applications, which are expected to become more than a $5 billion market segment by the year 2000, according to InStat Inc., a research firm based in Scottsdale, Ariz. I expect to hear a lot of discussion at Microprocessor Forum this year about decreasing DRAM latencies. Backside EDRAM's are an obvious answer to the problem. Hmm... Maybe I'll go talk to my VC. Does it hurt when that knee jerks? Scumbria