don,
what is your take on this from 6/27/99? seems acer wants rdram in low-end this year 1999. did you know this?
unclewest
Acer Will Support Rambus For Consumer PCs
TechWeb - Acer Laboratories, in Taipei, Taiwan, announced Tuesday that it
has licensed 800-MHz memory-interface technology from Rambus. The
company said this will make the higher speeds of Rambus -- 1.6 gigabytes per
second of peak bandwidth from a single device -- available to more-affordable
PCs.
"With Rambus memory support, the consumer PC owner will enjoy ample
performance for CPU-intensive, video, and 3-D graphics programs and games,"
said Chin Wu, president of Acer Laboratories. "Rambus technology is a key
element in our new products and will be a primary interface to DRAM for PC
main-memory controllers for 1999 and beyond."
Acer Laboratories plans to introduce a new generation of PC chip sets with
Rambus memory support this year. "ALI's record of being able to quickly ramp
leading-edge PC chip sets in high volume will help accelerate the proliferation
of the Rambus memory throughout the entire PC market," said Dave Mooring,
vice president and general manager of the PC Product Division of Rambus, in
Mountain View, Calif. |
