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To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (47782)	1/29/1999 11:12:00 AM
From: Brian Hutcheson	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1572900

AMD's insurance for .18 ? techweb.com That levels the playing field considerably . So much for Intel's dominance in process technology . K7 would be the best product for UMC fabs . Brian

To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (47782)	1/29/1999 12:54:00 PM
From: Paul Engel	Respond to of 1572900

Kevin - Re: "What do we need Rambus for?" Ask Samsung - they also make RAMBUS memory. Paul {====================================} semibiznews.com A service of Semiconductor Business News, CMP Media Inc. Story posted 10:30 a.m. EST/7:30 a.m., PST, 1/18/99 Samsung accelerates production of initial Rambus DRAMs SEOUL -- Samsung Electronics Co. Ltd. here today said it has begun mass production of high-speed DRAMs based on the wide-bandwidth memory architecture created by Rambus Inc. The Korean memory giant predicts that Rambus DRAMs will be used in 30% of new PCs in 1999, representing a $2.6 billion chip market. After demonstrating early prototypes last year, Samsung said it decided to accelerate its volume production of 72- and 144-Mbit densities of Rambus memories. During the first half of the year, about 500,000 chips will be produced a month--based on what Samsung calls"64-Mbit equivalence" bit volume. By the end of 1999, Samsung said it plans to increase the output to 5 million chips a month. In 1999, Samsung said it expects to complete development of a second-generation Rambus DRAM with next-generation process technology. The new version will be smaller and more price-competitive than the first-generation version. Details of that process were not made available. The Korean chip maker also said it plans to introduce 288-Mbit Rambus DRAM later this year. In the year 2000, the market for Rambus DRAMs will grow to about $13.5 billion, according to Samsung. The company said it is already receiving orders from leading makers of personal computer systems. Samsung also predicted that over half of all memory chips will be based on the Rambus architecture in the early part of the next century.

To: Kevin K. Spurway who wrote (47782)	1/29/1999 1:04:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 1572900

Kevin, What do we need Rambus for? DRDRAM will be a great technology for graphics cards. The narrow datapath allows separate physical memories to be used for different portions of the frame buffer and texture memory. Contention between texture memory, the Z-buffer, and other frame buffer components, is one of the limiting factors in graphics performance. It would not be practical to use SDRAM in a similar fashion because the pin count is too high. Rambus on the motherboard is a different matter. It will do nothing for CPU performance, but it does potentially reduce the pin count on the processor. Scumbria