hi. today, i doubled up on rmtr for no particular reason but
eventually, i would like to address the reason why posters on this
thread are optimistic ahout ramtron.
there seem to be a number of alternative architectures for the next
generation on ram, EDRAM (rmtr), RDRAM (rmbs), DDRAM and SLDRAM
(consortiums). first, is it correct to assume that these
architectures are directly competitive and address the same
applications? it would seem to me that the consortium developed
solutions would have a price advantage since there should be no need
to pay licensing royalties. from a techical standpoint, does EDRAM
have anything over the others? since DEC alpha's claim to fame is
performance, is their selection of EDRAM a convincing statement about
performance?
what is better about ferro (FRAM) than the other technologies cited in
RMTR's own 10K competition statement, EEPROM, BBSRAM, and NVRAM? or
for that matter, what is the "flash" memory that used in BIOSes, or
stores the programming in the modern VCR even when you unplug it?
some on this board are optimistic about ROLM's support of FRAM. why?
is it a big player?
are there any engineers out there?
-rcl |
