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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin
RMBS 97.75-0.3%9:34 AM EST
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To: Bilow who wrote (57650)10/14/2000 2:21:23 AM
From: Tenchusatsu  Read Replies (3) of 93625
 
Carl, I was there at Microprocessor Forum. One thing I saw was the TeamDDR demo systems featuring DDR-based Pentium III and Athlon systems. There was good news and bad news for DDR:

1) Good news: DDR was demonstrated on open-case systems. I was told that those were 266 MHz DDR DIMMs, and the motherboards were high-volume 4-layer motherboards.

2) Bad news: Those 4-layer MBs only had two DIMM slots each. I was told that DDR is only spec'ed for two DIMM slots on a 4-layer MB running at 266 MHz. Wasn't that the original "solution" to Intel's embarrassing 820 chipset problem last year?

The demos were enough to convince me that DDR will indeed make it onto desktop systems, probably in full force by the middle of 2001. But they also convinced me that implementing DDR is tougher than the anti-Rambus coalition would like everyone to believe.

Tenchusatsu

P.S. - AMD's 760 chipset isn't going to appear in systems until Q1 2001 at the earliest. I don't know where Tom's Hardware gets their inside info. I met the AMD spokesman personally, and he himself said that systems won't appear until Q1 2001 at the earliest. (And there's talk on the AMD threads that dual-processor 760 systems won't appear until Q2, but I didn't have a chance to confirm that with the AMD guy.)
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