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To: Carl R. who wrote (42287)	1/16/1999 10:10:00 AM
From: Chas	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 53903

Carl, I think Rambus will play a most important role with PC's that need to stream data from Video sources, high transfer rates involving the AGP running 4x, the disk drives boosted to ATA66 spec, video teleconf. Yes these are all high perf machine functions, that today we arent doing. But we will be. I never thought I would be connected to the internet with a cable modem so soon, but here I am connected at 2-4Mbits(supposedly). Anyway, I agree with your statements, I think some benchmarks will have to be re-written to test for RDRAM perf. which is not easy as the L1-L2 caches increase in size, but my understanding is RDRAM will really come into play with the more complex functions we will be doing above. The question I have is when will mainstream really need this memory performance, or when does the memory performance not cost a premium? Maybe these two will merge at some point and it will be a non issue. Good trading.

To: Carl R. who wrote (42287)	1/16/1999 10:13:00 PM
From: eabDad	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 53903

Carl R- Actually, we are both right on the die size penalties. Care must be taken not to extrapolate MU's die sizes to the rest of the market. I think our comparison difference comes from the starting point of SDRAM, where the bulk of the market makes die sizes larger than MU. MU has a history of having die sizes with the market on bleeding edge (like RDRAM) but when the part goes mainstream they accelerate ahead of the pack. My data is a compilation of most all the DRAM companies out there - I keep a database. edit... As for RDRAM being used in workstations. They have not fully converted to SDRAM yet, and have no RDRAM plans in 99. Z