Despite VIA Technologies’s strong endorsement of the DDR333 platform, DRAM manufacturers believe that the DDR333 architecture is only likely to assume mainstream status in 2003 at the earliest, judging from most companies’ production roadmaps.
Manufacturers said that because the DDR266 platform has just become mainstream, the mass production of most DRAM makers is focused on the DDR266 chips. Only a few companies have begun small-scale production of the DDR333 chips. Considering that it usually takes at least nine months for DRAM manufacturers to move a new product line into mass production, the DDR333 standard will have to wait until 2003 for its chance to become the mainstream.
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