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To: MileHigh who wrote (14156)	1/25/1999 1:26:00 PM
From: Dave B	Respond to of 93625

MileHigh & TigerPaw, Re: the deployment of Rambus. One thing to keep in mind is that Rambus is helping qualify all vendors including the ASIC vendors. Anytime you see an announcement of the release of a new Rambus ASIC Cell (RAC), it means that the ASIC designers can drop the RAC right into their ASIC designs and it will support Rambus memory from any memory manufacturer. A friend who designs ASICS is trying to design to the 100 Mhz SDRAM spec. He claims it's a major pain-in-the-butt because there are no real standards (for example, the stable-data-time-period for different DRAM vendors varies and he has to design to the lowest common denominator). Apparently, there are no standard ASIC cell designs that he can drop into his chip that will work with memory from all DRAM vendors, like there will be with Rambus. I'm not saying that I disagree with your previous statements re: how long Rambus will be flat, just that, in at least one respect, Rambus designs will be easier to implement than the competing high-speed SDRAM standards. Deployment issues should hopefully be just a matter of quantity, not a matter of technology. OTOH, I may be over-simplifying the facts as stated by my friend. Any technical folks have anything to add? Dave B