To All:
Have been lurking since January, and have understood the potential for new memory standard like Rambus in PCs, workstations, and games. But reading the link from Woodside from last July was helpful, as it talks about ATMs, fibre channels, and high speed communications, ie networking. Seems like networking is only going to continue to explode, and a Rambus future there could be spectacular, if I understand the references in that link. Not much has been mentioned on this thread in the past about networking, and I wonder why that is...is Rambus not required in high speed communications?
Also, Intel's recent reference to server farms, speaks again to a potentially explosive use for Rambus.
Finally, Rambus may not soon make it into the large number of PCs that comprise the "low end" of the PC market. But I can tell you as a professional, but only a computer layman, that even I "feel the need for speed" to always increase my productivity. There must be millions out there like myself who own 3 computers, have never played a game (I know, it's sick), and use their computers for 24 hr/day efficiencies and productivity. I don't intend to replace them until Rambus is available. Us laymen will demand speed, apart from the computer mavens and real pros, and it looks like Dell will give it to us. From there, it's probably one big snowball.
Isn't it Mindmeld who keeps saying in the past that this is a "no brainer"?
stan |
