Zeev, how do you think we react on Monday being that all the people who don't know much about Rambus will read this bull s%&t in this weeks Barrons. Palmer (the author) makes it seem like the delays are still a problem and that there may be innate problems with the technology. Everyone who's been following the story knows the problem was with the signal lines on the motherboard due to rare configuration issues with three RIMM boards. The problems have been identified and fixed...Mr. PALMER!
Furthermore, he quotes two PC review companies that I've never head of to make it look like Rambus is a complete flop. He could have easily went to Sony and DELL (slightly more credibility in my book)and asked them about the merits of Rambus.
I'll have my stable and fully functioning DELL/Rambus/733mhz Intel Coppermine PC on my desk before Christmas.
This guy Palmer should be taken to task....another opportunity for the shorts to make money.
Regards,
Doug
Here is the Rambus part of the article:
"There was one booth at Comdex where what was not on display may end up being more important than what was. I'm talking about the display put on by California-based Rambus, the designer of the new memory chips that the likes of Samsung and Micron will be making. Intel wants Rambus' elegant chip design to become the industry standard, and the first of the batch were supposed to have been incorporated into Intel's 820 chipset in September. But delays have followed delays, most of them unexplained with it still unclear whether the problems lie with Rambus, the chipmakers or Intel itself.
But even though top PC makers like Dell are still waiting to be able to offer the 820, the first techie reviews are hardly encouraging. Computer Gaming World reviewed the 820 recently and trashed it, arguing that they could see no performance gain for the higher cost. Likewise, Maximum PC magazine reported on its test of Rambus chip design in three different PC boxes, only to find no performance advantage. Considering that Rambus chips are said to be 40% more expensive, adding perhaps $200 to a typical PC configuration, that's bad news for the company.
We tried to reach Rambus executives to talk about the problem, but our calls earlier this week were not returned. Though the once-highflying stock came down from a peak of nearly 120 reached in July to 60 in September, it has since been regaining some of that lost ground and recently traded just under 80. Unless there's some full explanation quickly forthcoming of just what's going on with the delays, and just why these preliminary trials were so negative, that could prove too rich." |
