Intel Chip to Revive Rambus Memory Standard This Year, CT Says
Taipei, Aug. 9 (Bloomberg) -- Intel Corp., the world's largest chipmaker, will start in the fourth quarter volume production of a chip enabling dynamic random access memory based on a design from Rambus Inc. for use in personal computers, the Commercial Times Web site reported, citing unnamed computer makers in Taiwan.
The Intel chip, called a Memory Protocol Translator, replaces an faulty part introduced this year that set back the No. 1-ranked processor maker in its plans to start production of the Timna system chip during this year, the report said.
Intel's Timna, the first processor from the company to integrate graphics functions on a single piece of silicon and now scheduled for introduction in the first quarter of 2001, will only work with memory chips based on the Rambus standard, the Commercial Times report said.
Intel two weeks ago ended its exclusive endorsement of Rambus memory chips for the Pentium 4 processor scheduled for introduction in the fourth quarter this year. The company still says that Rambus memory chips will provide the best performance in high-end computers |
