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To: Bruce A. Thompson who wrote (47091)	1/23/1999 2:13:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571405

Bruce, AMD will have to thank Intel for pushing direct RDRAM, because K7 seems to be the first CPU that will really need it The reality is that no CPU needs DRDRAM. CPU's burst data in and out 32 bytes at a time. That is not enough data to get any benefit out of high bandwidth memory. The only real advantage of DRDRAM over SDRAM is a smaller pin count. High bandwidth is needed for graphics, not CPU's. The whole Intel/Rambus connection is little more than a marketing ploy. Scumbria