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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin
RMBS 108.58+8.5%Nov 5 3:59 PM EST
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To: richard surckla who wrote (24076)7/2/1999 4:48:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (3) of 93625
 
<Tom Pabst has just revealed that the "advantage" Rambus has over PC100 is essentially zero and that its "advantage" over PC133 is in fact negative.>

Here's a link to Tom's preview of the Camino chipset, the first to use DRDRAM:

www5.tomshardware.com

While Tom's review is pretty discouraging, remember that this is most likely a pre-release version of Camino, and that the final production version could have different results.

The preview of Camino reminds me of another little episode. Herr Uberclockermeister (Paul Engel's nickname for Tom) once ran a preview of a pre-production version of Klamath (a.k.a. Pentium II, 233-300 MHz), and said that performance was lackluster. (See www5.tomshardware.com Intel was pretty upset that Tom did such a thing, and relations between Tom and a few Intel representatives became tense for a while. In the end, when the Klamath finally hit the market as Pentium II, performance was much better than what Tom originally predicted.

Same thing could happen with Camino. I think the performance benefit of DRDRAM is very dependent on the memory controller (i.e. the Camino chipset). It's possible that the version Tom tested with had performance features turned off for debug purposes. If that's the case, then we just saw the bottom limit of Camino's performance with 800 MHz DRDRAMs, and actual performance can only go up from here.

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