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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: kash johal who wrote (60319)	6/2/1999 5:05:00 PM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1571219

Kash, "This RDRAM thing really mystifies me." My thesis is that Intel is not really "going whole hog" on RDRAM for PIII/Coppermine. I don't see Camino with RDRAM as a "must have" for this year. Actually a case can be made that DRDRAM with PIII/CuMinr actually screws up the Winstone performance and could be counter productive. It would appear that it would take a year for Intel to exploit RDRAM for PC apps in Timna or any other PCOAC. And there is the IA64 angle. Now, If you were Intel and you want this "revolutionary" memory at a very low cost in year 2000, when would you push the market in that direction? Would you make that happen well before hand and contain your risks or would you let memory guys take it easy and allow market fragmentation? You mentioned in a different post that the pin savings are a few dollars and "not much". Would you say the same thing if the target market is <$200 PC? Chuck