Hi Don Green; Re your list of Betamax supporters... Great link! Did you notice how many of the Betamax "supporters" (i.e. losers) are also supporters of RDRAM? BWAHAHAHAHAHA!!!
Sony, Zenith, NEC, Toshiba, Sears, Sanyo, Aiwa, Pioneer, Radio Shack, Murphy
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LOL!!!
Since you guys have no understanding of the memory industry, the best ideas you can come up with is comparisons with things that you already know the history of. So why don't you compare DDR to PC133, which is a much more likely comparison? At least the companies involved are pretty much the same. The fact is that Intel refused to support PC133 until the rest of the industry forced it on them. What, you forgot? Here's a link to remind you:
IDF: Intel bows to call for PC133 SDRAMs Sep 2, 1999
Bowing to pressure from system OEMs and DRAM vendors alike, Intel Corp. announced this week that it will support PC133 synchronous DRAMs with an Intel chip set that the company said won't be ready until the first half of 2000.
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Compare the length of the above Betamax list with a partial list of DDR supporters. Note that this is not complete, VIA has 70 design wins for a single DDR chipset design, which would be something in excess of 25 motherboard makers. DDR is way past the Betamax stage. This list only includes companies that are putting their name on chips or circuit boards, or are industry organizations, not just resalers. In that sense, the list is comparable to the Betamax list.
Mitsubishi, Infineon, Hitachi, AMI, Toshiba, IBM, Hyundai, Micron, Samsung, NEC, Elpida, Fujitsu, EMS CST, SmartModular, Kentron, Celestica, Buffalo, Kingston, ALi, SiS, VIA, AMD, Intel, Texas Instruments, InterWorks, Tanisys, FCI, ServerWorks, Transmeta, Nvidia, ATI, S3, MSI, ASUS, ATI, Elitegroup (ESC), Gigabyte, SuperMicro, BestBuy, Biostar, Chaintech, FIC, EPoX, Soltek, Leadtek, Soltek, STM, Sparkle, LuckyStar, Tyan
-- Carl |
