Jim, re: DDR article on Tom's Hardware Guide,
While there's nothing in the article that makes me jump up and cry "Foul," there is this nagging feeling inside of me that the article is yet another pro-DDR PR ploy by Micron. Consider this:
1) The article doesn't publish all of the benchmark results that they performed on their 840 RDRAM motherboard. And Tom's Hardware Guide has been known in the recent past to publish only those scores that put Intel in a negative light.
2) Micron sent Tom an advance engineering sample of their Samurai DDR chipset. Micron also sent such a sample to Bert McComas, a well-known anti-Rambus kind of guy, who then published a whitepaper showing this chipset's "superior" performance over 820 and RDRAM. Furthermore, Bert McComas has written anti-Rambus articles on Tom's web site in the past, well before DDR became the poster child of the anti-Rambus movement. See a relationship forming here?
3) It is generally believed that Micron has most to gain from the anti-Rambus, pro-DDR movement, given that Micron is spearheading a lot of the DDR development, and given that Micron may be behind other DRAM makers like Samsung in their ramp-up of RDRAM production.
I'm not saying that Micron is all smoke-n-mirrors here, but I do believe they have an agenda, just like the rest of the anti-Rambus people out there. (OK, so everyone has agendas, but that doesn't make DDR any more or less viable than before.)
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