Rambus memory expanding to servers
By Stephen Shankland
Staff Writer, CNET News.com
August 4, 1999, 5:20 p.m. PT
Memory technology maker Rambus is readying the next phase of its push into Intel-based computers, expanding from fast desktops into servers.
To back that push, the company will announce on Monday support for a technology that allows computers to keep working even if a memory chip fails completely, said Subodh Toprani, general manager of Rambus logic products division. The technology, called "chipkill" in the industry, is a feature demanded by computer makers selling machines that stay up and running even when major components fail.
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> But Compaq, a dominant seller of Intel-based servers, isn't champing at the bit to get Rambus into servers in this year or next.
"There are currently no plans to use RDRAM [Rambus memory] on Compaq servers," said Tom Lattin, director of corporate server marketing. "We expect it to be at a performance disadvantage in servers, be in limited supply, and be priced at a premium relative to SDRAM [today's mainstream memory] technology through the year 2000." |
