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The PC Heritage AAA AAA AA AA AAA AA Bandwidth CPU I/O Memory 1987 Time 1995 The basic desktop PC has looked pretty constant on the outside for the past 10 to 15 years. But inside, the PC technology has been moving fast and this pace is accelerating. Microprocessor technology has fueled the growth and CPU performance has, over the last ten years, increased 400 fold. Of course, we want to deliver this increased performance directly to the user's eyes, hands and more recently ears. We want CPU performance to translate directly into system performance. Just increasing the performance of the CPU creates bottlenecks in the system design. These bottlenecks need to be removed so that we can unleash the latest capability within the CPU. Over the past 1-2 years, the PC industry adopted the PCI IO subsystem to relieve the IO bottleneck. Increased Pentium processor performance is revealing the next system bottleneck -- the memory subsystem.