Larry,
Interesting article on MU's SLDRAM:
SAN JOSE, CALIF. (April 16) BUSINESS WIRE -April 16, 1998--SLDRAM, Inc., the company offering the broadest range of technology solutions for memory system requirements, today announced that SLDRAM supporter Micron Technology, Inc., Boise, Idaho, has shipped the first samples of Synchronous Link DRAMs to top-tier PC OEMs for evaluation.
"This is important to the electronics community because it"s a technology first and the only cost-effective technology operating at 400-800Mhz," said Farhad Tabrizi, president of SLDRAM, Inc., the industry-supported non-profit corporation driving development of SLDRAMs memory technology. "Today it"s clear that SLDRAM is not only on-time but well ahead of development schedules."
In sampling SLDRAMs now, Micron claims it beat its own internal development schedule for SLDRAM samples. Perhaps more importantly, Micron"s sample shipping precedes availability of competing memory ICs from Rambus, Inc, Sunnyvale, CA. Rambus had reportedly been ahead of SLDRAM developers in getting its Direct Rambus(TM) memory technology to market, however this recent development provides factual evidence to the contrary.
"Together the world"s memory manufacturers are demonstrating historic success in voluntarily cooperating on this natural, architectural evolution of IC memory," said Bert McComas, principal of InQuest, a Gilbert, AZ market and technology analysis firm. "This open, team-oriented approach will deliver lower-cost solutions than any mandated or proprietary approaches."
"The availability of the first devices makes an excellent statement about the progress of SLDRAM, Inc.," said Jim Rogers, of IBM Microelectronics. "We support open standard DRAM and consider SLDRAM an excellent technology for providing high bandwidth at low cost."
"Availability of SLDRAM marks a major milestone in high-performance memory development," said Gil Russell, technical marketing manager for Siemens Microelectronics. "SLDRAM, Inc. has delivered excellent on-time and on-spec performance. Siemens supports open-standard memory technology and is pleased with the results."
See related announcement from Micron Technology dated 4/14/98 at biz.yahoo.com About Micron
Micron Technology, Inc., and its subsidiaries manufacture and market DRAMs, very fast SRAMs, Flash, other semiconductor components, memory modules, personal computer systems, and remote intelligent communications (RIC) products. Micron"s common stock is traded on the New York Stock Exchange (NYSE) under the symbol [MU]. About SLDRAM, Inc.
SLDRAM, Inc. (Formerly the SLDRAM Consortium) is an open, non-profit corporation with the objectives of cooperatively developing an open DRAM specification with the largest memory capacity at the lowest possible cost. It believes this can be achieved by optimizing the process and the design to minimize manufacturing cost and by ensuring that the resulting devices can best serve high-volume markets through high-volume manufacturing thus achieving the greatest economies of scale. SLDRAM is a general purpose, high-performance DRAM, serving the requirements of all major DRAM applications. It is designed for computer main memory in desktop, mobile and high-end servers and workstations. SLDRAM offers high sustainable bandwidth, low latency, low power, user upgradeability and support for large hierarchical memory configurations. For video, graphics, and telecommunications applications SLDRAM provides multiple independent banks, allowing fast read/write bus turn-around, and the capability for small fully pipelined bursts.
DavidG |
