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Mamba: Athlon And DRAM Get Together

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the fact-or-fiction-or-just-plain-cool dept.

scottnews writes: "Tom's Hardware has posted this story about a new chipset for the AMD Athlon processor with 8MB of embedded DRAM in the chipset for 9.6 GB/s of sustainable bandwidth." Thatsa spicy meatball.

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  1. Oops. by plastickiwi · · Score: 5
    The article reads in part:
    In designing the Samurai, Micron noticed that 40% of its die was unused white space.

    Heh. They "noticed" that 40% of the die space was unused?

    ENGINEER BOB: Hey Steve, I just noticed that we're only using 60% of the die space on the Samurai.
    ENGINEER STEVE: Hmm.... Damned if you're not right! How did that slip past us in the months we spent designing it? Good thing you're on the job, Bob!

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    -- He's fantastic, made of plastic....