| [News] Production Teron CX systems soon for US$500 | ANN.lu |
| Posted on 04-Sep-2002 06:51 GMT by JoeBlow | 44 comments
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www.mai.com/news&events/PressRelease090302.html
Production version Teron systems using the Teron CX design will soon be available for purchasing from Mai Logic's strategic partners in the targeted price range of around $500.00 each.
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| Comment 1 | anarchic_teapot | | 04-Sep-2002 08:27 GMT |
| Comment 2 | Samface | | 04-Sep-2002 09:07 GMT |
| Comment 3 | Anonymous | | 04-Sep-2002 09:31 GMT |
| Comment 4 | JoeBlow | | 04-Sep-2002 09:47 GMT |
| Comment 5 | Hagge | | 04-Sep-2002 09:50 GMT |
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| Production Teron CX systems soon for US$500 : Comment 6 of 44 | ANN.lu |
| Posted by Björn Hagström on 04-Sep-2002 10:51 GMT | In reply to Comment 5 (Hagge):
"SDRAM - Doesn't matter since the PPC cpu isn't fast enough for ddr anyway (PPC7470 or something might be)."
Not entirly true. Between the memory and the CPU there's a north bridge chip. It handles more than just the CPU's requests for memory resouces. Such as AGP and PCI/read writes from/to memory. DMA writing data directly into RAM when reading from an IDE Device. And other I/O coming from the south bridge. Simply put, it's a gateway between the different parts of a modern computer.
Imagine that the cpu is saturating its FSB by reading from memory at 133Mhz. Using SDRAM this would soak up most available bandwidth to the memory modules. With DDR SDRAM (at 133Mhz effective 266Mhz) there would be "lots" of bandwidth left for other parts to use. Such as streaming a divx movie from a UDMA drive while the CPU is decoding previously read data.
(There's more to it all than what is said above, as some hothead will probably say in a reply. But please understand that sometimes it's not needed to go beyond generalisations to show a point..)
/Björn |
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