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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (96653)3/3/2000 9:56:00 PM
From: Joe NYC  Read Replies (1) of 1574805
 
Tenchusatsu,

actually Intel's current stance is for Rambus in desktops and workstations, and DDR SDRAM in servers.

Do you know what the reasoning behind this stance is? I mean technical reasoning.

only thing holding it back right now is the high price of RIMMs

There was a post either here or on JCs pointing to inherent reason in Rambus design that make it more expensive because (I believe) it is more complex, hard to test and power hungry.

Given this and if the difference can never be overcome using today's process technology, and supposing that the cost will always be 25% or 50% more expensive than say PC-133 SDRAM.

Wouldn't 25% or 50% increase in SDRAM in the computer pretty much always overcome whatever inherent strength Rambus has?

Joe
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