Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin Message Board

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin

RMBS 102.70

+1.1%

9:45 AM EST

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (28828)	9/6/1999 11:34:00 PM
From: grok	of 93625

RE: <KZNerd has postulated that if Rambus "reformulates" the RDRAM design to have fewer banks, then current versions of chips and controllers will be incompatible with the "New and Improved" version. Let me find out tomorrow. I don't know if the Rambus protocol is flexible enough to accomodate the "reformulated" version. I think it should be, though I'm not certain. Tenchusatsu> Tench, Doesn't the controller on the chip set (or processor in the case of Timna) keep track of which banks are open so that it can issue "CAS accesses" (wrong name but I can't look up the right name because Rambus made their tech data password protected) to open banks? So the controller has to know how many banks there are. I expect that there is some programmability to this so that controllers can adjust to newer and denser memories with more banks. Well, maybe there is enough programmability to adjust to fewer banks as well. In any case I supposed people in the Chip Set area have been looking into this since IDF so I don't expect that it'll take long to find your answer.

Report TOU Violation

Share This Post

Public Reply Prvt Reply Mark as Last Read File

Previous 10 Next 10 Previous Next