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DDR RAM
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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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