As far as I know MSD has Patents on SDRAM. Intel is pushing for RDRAM to be the next standard in memory. Also Samsung and other major DRAM manus are looking at
Dubbed Synchronous-II, the memory chips from Samsung will use a technology known as Double Data Rate (DDR), which will let the chips pump out data at twice the rate of their internal clock speed. A 300-megahertz Synchronous-II chip, for instance, will be able to transfer data to the microprocessor at 2.4 gigabytes per second, said Bob Eminian, director of strategic marketing and applications at Samsung Semiconductor, San Jose, Calif. Other chip companies backing the technology include Fujitsu, NEC, Texas Instruments, Micron, Toshiba and Hitachi.
Also MSD acq a chunk of land for a new HQ or sothing like that. cl |