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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin
RMBS 104.29-2.5%9:40 AM EST
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To: Dan3 who wrote (27989)8/29/1999 12:17:00 PM
From: Mindanao  Read Replies (1) of 93625
 
Agree that the march of silicon shrinks/electrical tweaks will continue to show incremental improvements on existing DRAM technologies (e.g., SDRAM, PC133, etc., etc.), but it sure looks like those incremental improvements are only going to get us through another year or two before the applications have outstripped them (or before you need to add so many repeaters for large-memory configurations that you negate the value of the incremental improvement).

As for DDR, I think I'm pretty well on record with my opinion on that (might work for some graphics apps, but it dies in main-memory configurations, no matter what the "data sheets" say).

And I totally agree about the need to improve DRAM latency! Instead of pouring money into incremental improvements on SDRAM interfaces, DDR and/or SLDRAM, the DRAM companies should -- like NEC is -- be focused on improving their core latency!

I can understand why the DDR gang would be pushing the VC/DDR -- with the core improvements VC brings, it could be made to appear that DDR is higher-performance than it actually is... but the real winner would be a VC/Rambus chip... then you'd get dramatic improvements on latency and bandwidth. Sweet.
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