In comp.sys.ibm.pc.hardware.chips Robert Myers <rbmyersusa@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
in part:
> On Dec 5, 12:31 am, daytripper <day_tri...@[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> wrote
>> Of course, the first question they had was "what about latency?"
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> Bandwidth is king. Said it long ago. Wider is the only
Uhm, err, for what sorts of problems/tasks? Had bandwidth
been always and overall governing, Rambus first iteration
would have succeeded. Their execs obviously thought they
had technical advantages worth the commercial conditions.
The market disagreed.
> way left to go. We will see more and more of same and the
> only thing to do about latency is to hide it.
This has often been tried with only partial success (video)
Sometimes latency governs and cannot be hidden (databases).
It must be reduced as AMD has done fairly successfully.
-- Robert
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