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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (49120)	2/9/1999 8:38:00 PM
From: RDM	Respond to of 1583374

DRDRAM vs SDRAM Price and speed are what matters. No one knows as well what price each will be let alone the speed. Competition and royalties are key factors that make it tough to judge. Personally I would prefer as my future motherboard one that used two DIMM packages with 100 Mhz DRAM and provision for two more. Intially this will likely be dirt cheap by comparison to any "synchronous" alternative. It is too soon to call which future technology might be cheaper. AMD is not going to drive the market. Intel seems to be trying to. Why it is not clear. I think they own 20% of Rambus. More importantly they have a special sweetheart deal with Rambus, I heard at the Hot Chips conference last summer, that allows them to build Rambus controllers while paying significantly less royalties than Intels controller competitors (AMD and others) to Rambus. The DRAM producers are not too keen on RAMBUS because it requires them to pay royalties on the RAM chips as well.