En nu we toch met de Mac bezig zijn: volgens MacOS Rumors heeft Apple momenteel testplankjes met een multiple channel SDRAM interface in het lab liggen:
Although technical details are still embargoed for Apple's protection, sources have given Rumors the green light to report that hardware developers there have experimented with multiple SDRAM memory bus channels (essentially 2-4 main busses acting synchronously) to increase main bus bandwidth on G4/MaxBus systems.There are still a number of technical obstacles to overcome -- and RAM must be purchased in identical pairs or quadruplets with this system -- but the technology, similar in concept to RAMBUS's method of "widening the road" that memory bandwidth traffic travels upon, has proven dramatic in effect.
Eerder demonstreerde Micron al een prototype van haar Samurai chipset met dual channel DDR SDRAM. Foto's van deze plank (met twee northbridges) vind je in deze nieuwsposting van 31 januari.