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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin

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To: unclewest who wrote (27392)	8/22/1999 10:07:00 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (4) of 93625

Re: Adding bandwidth with Rambus .... 33 signal pins. I hate to rain on your parade, but I'm not gonna let that stop me :-) A lower pin count is desirable because it lowers costs. If rambus equipped PCs start coming in cheaper than otherwise equivalent SDRAM PCs, great. But right now, I don't think anyone is expecting that. Quite the opposite, in fact. A lower pin count has no intrinsic value. While the lower pin count makes laying out the motherboard easier, and provides a benefit if it allows better component placement, rambus has more stringent location requirements for the memory traces, so even that may end up no better than a wash. If the data streaming ability of rambus ever looks like it's of any use in a PC, we'll return to interlaced memory, the way all of the old 486s were before cache became universal and streaming data was determined to not be worth the $10 a couple of extra memory sockets added to the cost of a motherboard. I've said it before: the advantage of rambus isn't that it's fast, it's that it's cheap, only it isn't cheap. haiku? Dan

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