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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin

RMBS 97.02

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Jan 6 3:59 PM EST

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To: Dave B who wrote (24138)	7/4/1999 6:59:00 PM
From: Dave B	of 93625

Richard, I managed to get through to some of the other boards. It appears that the crowd is mostly anti-Rambus, but there are a couple of supporters: x42.deja.com[ST_rn=if]/getdoc.xp?AN=492745222&CONTEXT=931128557.1593966745&hitnum=7 Joe Keane <jgk@jgk.org> writes: > > So i've been reading in the news about problems with Rambus, citing > 'techical glitches' and 'production problems'. > > I have another suggestion: maybe it's just a dumb idea. > Not really, it IMHO is going to be the future. And after that something even more out there. Consider the fact that everyone(even intel as talked about a product) will be shifting to putting the memory controller on chip. Why? "Its the latency stupid", even with a potential latency hit for the DRAM access, the gain from bringing all the logic on chip more than makes up for this. You literally can cut the latency in half by bringing it on chip. The memory controller can be more complex as well. Whereas more memory controllers are only able to keep track of a few open pages, on chip memory controllers will keep track of hundreds. The next evolution of the memory interface is to get rid of the bus totally and go towards a point to point memory interface with >3Gb/s/p signalling. Rambus is not a dumb idea( even the Synclink people would have to agree since Synclink was basically the same thing). Pushing the SDRAM interface to infinity IS A DUMP IDEA. Aaron Spink not speaking for Compaq

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