Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Intel Corporation (INTC) -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Paul Engel who wrote (67796)	11/4/1998 12:57:00 AM
From: puborectalis	Respond to of 186894

Paul,it's a shame that TL hasn't a clue what a Camino or Katmai is!

To: Paul Engel who wrote (67796)	11/4/1998 4:54:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

<The First Silicon Camino is now running within Intel. Test systems are up and running with 133 MHz Front Side Bus (FSB) driving the Katmai and Camino Chip sets and RAMBUS memory delivering 800 MegaBytes/sec.> First of all, isn't Rambus RDRAM memory supposed to deliver 1.6 GB/sec of bandwidth? 800 MB/sec is the theoretical bandwidth of PC100 SDRAM. Perhaps the article you quoted was mistaken, since I would guess that Camino would be validated on SDRAM first, then RDRAM later. Second, considering that the 133 MHz FSB will deliver a peak bandwidth of 1.06 GB/sec, would that mean that Intel would not be using the full bandwidth of RDRAM? Or perhaps Intel is counting on AGP to use up the rest of the bandwidth via non-coherent AGP transactions? Guess I'll have to start asking questions around here. Tenchusatsu P.S. - It was a surprise to me to see that Intel is hiring again, considering that I haven't heard any official announcement saying that the hiring freeze is over.