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To: Paul Engel who wrote (11986)	10/7/2000 10:03:53 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) of 275872

Re: Rambus almost single handedly forced the DRAM manufacturers to get off their butts and design faster memory. Wrong. The memory industry has consistently had faster DRAMs available than there were chipsets capable of using them. Video cards are already using the 333MHZ DRAMs being produced by the DRAM industry. For a long time Intel dominated the chipset market and refused to use the faster DRAMs being produced by the industry. Intel even sued VIA for producing a chipset that used 133MHZ memory that the DRAM industry had been producing for years. Intel refused to support VCDRAM in its chipsets. It took AMD, with its relatively small market share, to support faster (DDR) memory technology. Intel meanwhile did support a more expensive memory (Rambus) but not, according to its own benchmarks, a faster one. Have you noticed that AMD is now leading the industry as it moves to the newer, higher performing DDR platforms? Kind of reminds you of when Intel took the lead away from IBM, doesn't it? Dan

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