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To: unclewest who wrote (12642)	1/8/1999 1:50:00 PM
From: Dave B	Respond to of 93625

Uncle, My simplistic guess would be as follows: - Rambus technology focuses on getting data in and out of memory devices (chips) as quickly as possible - The NGIO technology seems to focus on providing access to memory by multiple devices. The benefit comes, for example, when you don't have to waste processor cycles transferring data from something like a hard drive to memory through the processor. If the hard drive can transfer directly to memory without bothering the processor, then the processor can continue doing it's more important tasks. Ditto for other devices in the system. BWDIK, I could be totally off-base here. I would guess that these would be complementary technologies (faster memory combined with the ability to have more devices accessing memory), but there may be something in the NGIO specs that would make it difficult to use Rambus memory (especially since Rambus has some tight tolerances for some physical and electrical attributes). Dave B