Hi sylvester80; Re your gross misrepresentations:
You wrote: "Why did VIA drop the Samurai after testing it even though they originally said they were going to use it?" Where did they say that they were going to use the Samurai? Must have been something I missed. I thought VIA has had DDR chipsets in demo since 1997, why would they want to use somebody else's design? If so, I would guess that the Samurai, while demonstrating that DDR was stable, cheap and fast, did not have features that VIA required in their chipsets.
You wrote: "Why did Micron kill the Samurai? Why it was never a production system? ... What is Micron hiding if any by killing the Samurai and never releasing a production system?" Samurai was never intended to go into production. It was probalby always a ploy to get the chipset makers off their duffs with DDR. Here's the original story:
'Samurai' may spur DDR mkt. Oct 11, 1999
Hoping to stimulate sales of higher-speed memory, Micron Technology Inc. said it may put its double-data-rate, SDRAM-enabled Samurai chipset out for license to accelerate the market's adoption of PC266 DDR devices.
Dean Klein, vice president of the integrated-products group at Boise, Idaho-based Micron, said the company "isn't in the chipset business, but [wants] to enable the early penetration of DDR memory into the market." Klein said widespread availability of DDR chipsets is the gating function to ramping up PC266 sales.
techweb.com
Micron is already in the motherboard / system business, as well as the memory business. Everybody (other than mom and pop) knows that the chipset business is one that will mostly disappear in a few years. Maybe that's the reason that Micron wants to avoid that business. My own guess is that Micron knows its expertise is not in the chipset business. I would guess that the Samurai did not include some of the more modern features included in the AMD and VIA DDR chipsets, and consequently it could not compete with them.
Around May, Micron announced that they were going to put the Samurai into production after all. There are a couple of ways of interpreting this. The simplest is to suppose that some motherboard houses told them that they were considering the part for volume. (Customers say the darndest things.) Then when the customers compared the Samurai to alternative DDR chipsets, they switched to the others and told Micron "never mind." The more complicated interpretation is to go back to the original intent that Micron gave for the Samurai. They wanted to jump start the chipset designers. By saying that they were taking it into production, one supposes that VIA and ALi were forced to also announce. But the fact is that the Samurai was not originally intended to do anything other than demonstrate the technology.
Re: "Why benchmarks from other DDR chipsets show much more poor results than the Samurai?" This is a simple lie, to the extent that it is readable English. You guys would believe anything, it seems. DDR benchmarks are impressing the reviewers, maybe you didn't read them. Or maybe you've got blinders on and can't see the plain simple evidence.
The rest of your post is just the usual FUD. I see you've managed to generate 187 posts since you got your SI membership 5 days ago. This isn't very long. Three months from now, you will either have retired from the thread, or I will be posting back to you the silly predictions and statements. I look forward to this. (G)
-- Carl |
