Carl, you (and Appleton) got me! MU announces Rambus samples!
newsalert.com
BOISE, Idaho--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 7, 1999--Micron Technology, Inc., today announced shipment of 128 Meg and 144 Meg RDRAM(R)(Rambus(R) DRAM) samples to Intel Corporation. These components are intended to support 600MHz, 712MHz, and 800MHz speed grades. Samples will be available for customers as soon as initial evaluations are completed and production volumes of RDRAM devices will be available in the second half of 1999.
And only three months after his statement from that infamous "First Blood" article from thestreet.com:
Asked on the call when Rambus chips would debut, Appleton bristled. "It's obviously public now that there have been delays -- considerable delays, I guess, from the perspective that when we looked at this two years ago people were talking about Rambus being a '97 product, then a '98 product, then a '99 product," he said. "And it looks like the amount of coordination and effort required to put Rambus into high volume production is not going to happen any time in the next several months so it is clearly something that will take place later this year and into 2000." |
