John, I'll look at that website when I get a chance. Maybe Rambus defined the electrical environment perfectly well. However, someone blew it on one side of the interface design or the other (or both). As an Intel stockholder, I do have the right to ask questions when a new product development goes awry, and costs me obvious bucks. Do you know what went wrong?
I personally won't feel good about the Pentium 4 until there are alternative memory types available for it.
By your posts, I can tell that you have an excellent background in high frequency (probably any frequency) environments. Me too, and I also have been around computer architecture and design for a few years. That's why I've always been leery of Intel going way down the Rambus road. Sure, the very narrow data bus is nice, but if you don't design in the transmission line environment perfectly, it's prone to many, many electrical problems. I sound like a broken record, I know, but one never knows when someone might be reading that has some influence. Then again, it is happening: DDR SDRAM...keep that design moving, please.
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