Anand's Day 1 -part 2 coverage is up

[Adul]

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[John]

The SiS 648 was also on display; for those of you that aren't familiar with the chipset, the 648 is basically SiS' 645 Pentium 4 chipset but with AGP 8X support. Although the chipset was supposed to be running a DDR400 demo, the memory was running at DDR333 speeds because of stability issues.

Interesting, lol.

 

[Adul]

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I find this interesting

The first point of discussion was the future of RDRAM with the Pentium 4 platform to which Mr. Siu quickly reaffirmed what we had been hearing from motherboard manufacturers - after the 850E, there will be no more RDRAM based chipsets for the Pentium 4. Although Mr. Siu (as well as most people in the industry) believes that RDRAM is technically superior to DDR, he made it clear that Intel's roadmap was hurt severely by an overly strong commitment to the technology which today still isn't as economically viable as DDR.

The transition in the future will be to dual-channel DDR which can be seen in Intel's forthcoming Granite Bay chipset (see our previous page on Gigabyte). It's too early for Intel to commit to DDR-II but it seems as if that would be the logical step after DDR333 for Intel assuming that they continue to phase out RDRAM on their platforms.