I agree with charles on all his points. What wasn't even speculated in this article was that the upcoming hammer series is starting out with ddr333 memory. Wouldn't it make sense that nvidia and via are making chipsets that handle the faster memory types(ddr333, ddr400) now so as to iron out all the bugs? I have read around that these newer memory types are trickier to design and implement because of their higher clock frequencies and are the top frequencies allowed for the ddr-1 specification. Newer designs in the ddr-2 standard supposedly iron out these problems as well. The hammer series is going to have good oem support, and if via and nvidia want to hang on for the ride, they need to develop very stable and efficient solutions. If nvidia and via release ddr400 solutions now, all they have to do is take out the ev6 bus, and pop in hypertransport. They could get half of the engineering out of the way now, while everyone is waiting for hammer. That has been my opinion for a few months now, and I think this article mentioned the glorious 533mhz p4 bus, but nothing of the hammer's ddr333. Since both products aren't released, isn't that a little bit biased?
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