EBN Online schrijft dat de JEDEC (Solid State Technology Association) volgende week begint met het opstellen van de PC3200 specificaties. PC3200 wordt ontwikkeld om het gat tussen PC2100 DDR en de toekomstige DDR-2 standaard te overbruggen en heeft een maximale bandbreedte van 3,2GByte/sec, vergelijkbaar met dual channel PC800 Rambus. De eerste PC3200 modules zullen in 2001 op de markt komen. In het artikel wordt gesuggereerd dat er mogelijk Athlon chipsets met dual channel DDR op de markt komen. Dit zou gigantische bandbreedtes van 4,2 tot 6,4GByte/s mogelijk maken, ver boven de snelheden van dual channel Rambus:
If a PC3200 standard is ratified by the end of the year, the first modules to incorporate the new chip could come to market in 2001, Rhoden said. He referred to PC3200 as “a kind of DDR-1.5” that will offer higher interim performance until the next-generation DDR-2 specification comes to market in 2003.[...] When it debuts, PC3200 SDRAM is expected to enable Advanced Micro Devices Inc.'s Athlon processors to match the 3.2-Gbyte/s data rates of the upcoming Intel Willamette MPUs. In the meantime, the first DDR Athlons using PC2100 modules are slated to debut midyear, with a 2.1-Gbyte/s data rate twice that of the PC133 SDRAMs used by Intel's Pentium IIIs.
Intel could recover the data-rate lead with Willamette, slated to go into production early next year. However, Rhoden said Athlon-based PCs could also use a dual-channel PC2100 memory configuration capable of an even higher 4.2-Gbyte/s data rate. When PC3200 becomes available, dual-channel DDR-enabled desktops and workstations could have a bandwidth as high as 6.4 Gbytes/s, he added.
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