Uncle,
Good find. I said it before -- designing by consortium will never overtake a well-focused, driven company:
"The SLDRAM effort entered the fray relatively late, and, partly because of its committee-bound structure, never caught up with Rambus Inc."
Also, the article says that a 266Mhz DDR 256Mb chip will be available at the end of 2000. So let me understand this, they'll provide (assuming a 4 byte wide data path) a 1.06 GBs transfer rate beginning in 1.5 to 2 years, versus a 1.2 GBs transfer rate in a 600MHz Camino available in 3 or so months and 1.6 GBs in an 800Mhz Camino in roughly 6 months. Can you say "waste of time and money"? By then, the cost premium for RDRAM will be non-existent when you factor in the cost savings for the smaller pin count. And by then Intel will have developed support for multiple processors (if, as someone claimed, that's a problem currently).
So here's my prediction: By late 2000, the DDR consortium will have gone the way of all flesh. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust.
Thanks again, uncle, you made my weekend. (That, plus a 9 3/4 increase in the stock price. And I'll try to be more accurate in my predictions in the future.)
Dave B |
