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Politics : RAMTRONIAN's Cache Inn
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To: pat mudge who wrote (7198)12/28/1999 6:53:00 PM
From: Carl R.  Read Replies (1) of 14464
 
Pat, both RMBS and RMTR have a variety of patents in the area of memory technology. RMBS is responsible for RDRAM and DRDRAM, or Rambus DRAM. Intel earlier had embraced it as the next generation of memory technology. Unfortunately it is significantly harder to implement than Intel had expected, which has caused numerous delays in the 820 chipset, and also it is about 50% more expensive than standard DRAM.

At this point it appears that the next generation of DRAM will be DDR dram, which tests out as significantly faster than RDRAM and also costs only slightly more than standard DRAM.

RMTR has some interesting memory technologies as well. These include FeRAM, which is a non-volatile static memory (i.e. it doesn't lose it's data when power is turned off). So far as I know it primarily competes with such technologies as EAPROMs and Flash. I believe it is significantly faster than either. Someone more familiar than myself with the products can probably clear this up.

RMTR also has a high speed memory technology, called EDRAM. I have no idea where it is currently being used, nor how it's speed compares to RDRAM or DDR DRAM. Again, someone else could perhaps clear this up.

Since to a certain extent RDRAM and DDR DRAM are competitors of EDRAM, I would consider news on RMBS to be relevant.

Carl
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