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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (60587)	6/4/1999 4:53:00 PM
From: Marco Polo	Respond to of 1572746

"...the rest of the post is just your regular "Rambus is DOA, DDR SDRAM is a sure thing" ranting that provides me with more buying opportunities for the volatile RMBS stock." Au contraire. Most posters have said something more like Rambus is a sure thing and DDR SDRAM is DOA, such as yourself. Only time will tell.

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (60587)	6/4/1999 5:54:00 PM
From: fyo	Respond to of 1572746

Tench, And it's vapor. Only two months ago did the "anti-Rambus" coalition scrap SLDRAM in favor of DDR SDRAM. And DDR's progress is well behind that of DRDRAM. This may well be true, but there are very strong indications that the next generation of graphics cards (expected out this fall) will use DDR-SDRAMs. While this does not necessarily translate into acceptance in the motherboard/chipset industry, it does seem that DDRSDRAM equipped (graphics)boards will start shipping at roughly the same time as DRDRAM equipped (mother)boards. Thus, if DDRDRAM is 'vapor', so is DRDRAM. -fyodor

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (60587)	6/4/1999 6:18:00 PM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572746

Tenchusatus, but what about LATENCY, you only talk about DRDRAM's fabulous throuput! Finally, DDR SDRAM at 266 MHz (133 MHz double pumped) may boast of a higher theoretical bandwidth than 800 MHz DRDRAM, but DRDRAM makes better use of bandwidth than any form of SDRAM because of the larger number of banks and the packetized protocol. So I wouldn't be surprised if the actual throughput of DDR SDRAM is no better than that of DRDRAM. Isn't the latency of CAS2 133 MHz SDRAM (not even DDR) superior to 800 MHz DRDRAM? Petz