I believe that VIA is planning on releasing a chipset for DDR memory on a P4
(as well as P3).

Tom Veldhouse
veldy at veldy.net

----- Original Message -----
From: "Michael Hicks" <hick0088 at tc.umn.edu>
To: <tclug-list at lists.real-time.com>
Sent: Tuesday, December 12, 2000 10:50 AM
Subject: Re: [TCLUG] RDRAM or no RDRAM [OT]


> I've heard good things about DDR (Double Data Rate) SDRAM systems.
> Essentially the same effect as getting RDRAM (you get 1.5 or 2
> bits/cycle passed over a data line), but I hear it's much cheaper/easier
> to make.  Unfortunately, I'm not sure if they're on the market yet, and
> you have to be willing to go with an AMD Athlon instead (oh the horror!
> </sarcasm> ;-).
>