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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: d[-_-]b who wrote (96647)3/4/2000 1:44:00 AM
From: Goutam   of 1575983
 
Eric,

You are assuming RAMBUS is an in-thing - just because its stock price is high. Yes, it has advantages. It also has glaring disadvantages - licensing fee and cost.

<I realize AMD hasn't ridiculed Rambus - they need to incorporate new technology like the rest of the world.>

Exactly, but Intel ain't the rest of the world. AMD doesn't need to implement the same new technology that Intel adopts. In the digital and software world, you can do a given thing in many ways (tim toady - TMTOWTDI - There's More Than One Way To Do It). AMD as well as many other companies are as good as Intel in picking new technologies.

<What is interesting is to look at why Intel employes Rambus and where AMD plans/hints at it implementation.>

There is no immediate need for AMD to come out with RAMBUS support just because Intel is doing it. It's not the only great thing out there. Actually, I see not committing to RAMBUS and pursuing DDR SDRAM at this time as an advantage for AMD.

<Intel, servers - handle high client traffic.>

Wrong example to show RAMBUS proliferation.

<AMD, desktop to deal with 1/3 speed cache issues, to remain competitive with Willamette/Celeron for that matter.>

1/3 speed cache will be a moot issue in a couple of months.
Celeron vs Athlon - keep dreaming.
Remaining competitve with Willamette from the memory interface point of view - there will be other viable options by the time Willamette comes out - especially DDR SDRAM. IMHO, as far as AMD is concerned, the company will explore all the options and will provide the best price/preformance option based on the market demand.

Goutama
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