Funny you mention Merced while Scott was talking about RAMBUS. 460GX chipset
was using PC100 SDRAM, not RAMBUS.
Merced had a lot of daemons, RAMBUS was not one of it.
And I sat through the decision process in the other processor company when Bill
Joy and Andy Bechtolsheim overrule the engineers recommendation to use RAMBUS.
They correctly realized that bandwidth per pin could not justified the degraded
performance due to increase in memory latency imposed by RAMBUS. Speed and
signal integrity was never a concern and I know both the engineer responsible
to make that happen in RAMBUS and the engineer in that workstation company
tasked to make sure it worked.
RAMBUS exist to address a simple problem at that time, highest bandwidth per
pin for cost sensitive application. And it had plenty of examples in Nintando64
and PlayStation. And Intel always had an alternative as backup, it's called
ServerWorks.
Chris Cheng
Distinguished Technologist , Electrical
Hewlett-Packard Enterprise Company
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Scott,
Almost makes me want to go out and become an engineer! Nice work!
Didn't know you lived through the Intel Merced disaster! Only time I ever
heard a CEO admit publicly that Intel had made that mistake. Craig Barret did
that.
I watched the Apollo landing because I had a radio on board. That design
was my first job out of college. Couldn't believe they gave such important
jobs to beginners! But, then, everyone on that project was a beginner at
designing those things!
Lee
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