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an article on DDR
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| Fri Oct 20, 2000 | 7:11P| PermaLink |
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"We have all seen DDR RAM in action on Nvidia's line of Geforce graphics
cards and even on ATI's Radeon graphicscard. The AMD Athlon's bus currently
runs at 100mhz DDR to produce 200mhzin performance. DDR effectively emulates
the bandwidth of a true 200mhz inthe AMD Athlon. We are just now seeing it
implemented into our systems viathe extended memory as an alternative to the
highly expensive RDRAM which Intelembraced blindly. This is the first step
to matching processor and memorybandwidth, which was an old goal for
processor and RAM manufacturers in thepast. AMD, still having the choice to
implement RDRAM, haschosen the wiser, DDR SDRAM path. RDRAM has a 60%
bandwidth advantage to ourcurrent 133mhz SDRAM. DDR SDRAM will effectively
double the speed ofcurrent SDRAM thus overtaking RDRAM's capabilities."
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FULL STORY @
ATHLONOC
(http://www.athlonoc.com/ddr.htm)
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