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To: kash johal who wrote (60312)	6/2/1999 2:58:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 1571153

Kash, The reason why I said that PC133 is stop-gap is because the only thing that PC133 brings to the table is a 33% faster burst rate. No difference in latency, no additional banks, no difference in pincount, no means to better handle traffic from multiple sources. Except for lower latency, RDRAM brings all these things that PC133 SDRAM doesn't. (As for the latency problem, well, I have yet to see a real solution that can reduce latency, except for integrated memory controllers on the processor die. And even that will require a low pincount solution like RDRAM. In comparison, DDR SDRAM will require up to 200 pins, which is a lot.) Tenchusatsu

To: kash johal who wrote (60312)	6/2/1999 3:37:00 PM
From: grok	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1571153

RE: < The increase from 100Mhz to 133Mhz didn't affect performance much at all. This leads to the conclusion that memory bandwidth is a non-issue for desktop PCs. And that 133 RDRAM won't do much either to boost performance.> There is some truth to this. Today's desktops are not too dependent on the drams. Of course as frequencies move to 1 GHz and beyond and AGP demands more and more bandwidth the needs increase. The real issue is revolutionary vs evolutionary. Do you make a big, sudden change and get maybe more than you need in the beginning at higher cost or do you make smoother steps to 100, 133, ddr, ddr2 and deliver just what is needed when it is needed. I think that the big, sudden change will be causing Intel some heart burn in Q3 since drdrams won't be in enough volume at low prices.