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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin

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Nov 26 3:59 PM EST

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To: unclewest who wrote (28880)	9/7/1999 10:26:00 AM
From: grok	Read Replies (1) of 93625

Yes, the Alpha 21364 looks like a hella beast. It was presented at Microprocessor Forum 11 months ago and I have been telling people about it on the AMD thread for quite some time. SInce it has FOUR rambus ports directly on the CPU it avoids chip set delays altogether. One thing new in the post you referenced is this: "Terry Shannon, editor of Shannon knows Compaq,which specialises in the arena, said he thought the projections looked accurate. He said it was likely that the 21364 would also incorporate support for CPU lockstepping." The CPU lockstepping is very important for highend servers and, in my opinion, has been one of the reasons that Rambus has been scoring a goose egg there. It's not clear how the Alpha guys would achieve this lockstepping since it would seem that the Rambus channel would have to travel to the other CPU which I'd think would be electrically a big no-no. But maybe we'll find out more about this since it seems that info is starting to flow again on 21364 after being quiet for some time.

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