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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin
RMBS 106.93+2.1%3:59 PM EST

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To: Bilow who wrote (42000)5/11/2000 4:02:00 AM
From: John Walliker   of 93625
 
Carl,

The MTH chip has two interfaces, an SDRAM interface (using standard industry signalling levels) and a Rambus channel interface (using Rambus' RSL signal levels). Of those two, the SDRAM interface is old technology, we learned how to make those bullet proof a long, long time ago. So the noise problem is undoubtedly happening on the RSL bus. The RSL bus interconnects the i820 to the MTH. And it very likely has a signal integrity issue in the MTH design. In the long run, this is not a good thing for Rambus. It basically shows that Intel had trouble making an interchip connection using Rambus' RSL technique.

You are guessing. Neither of us knows which bus is causing the problems at the moment.

John
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