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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin
RMBS 106.06-0.8%3:59 PM EST

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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (39902)4/14/2000 3:19:00 PM
From: Scumbria  Read Replies (1) of 93625
 
Ten,

in Sony's case, it was MUCH more cost-effective to go with two RDRAM chips to provide 3.2 GB/sec in bandwidth than to go with two oversized 64-bit DDR chips. The low pin count of RDRAM makes routing and layout a lot simpler, thus allowing the PS2's mainboard to be cheaper and more compact.

PS2 is exactly the type of application where DRDRAM makes sense. Two high bandwidth ports to memory, so DDR is not practical.

It will be interesting to see the impact of embedded DRAM in this market space, however.

Scumbria
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