MileHigh,
Had to go back and check some previous posts re: the Sony/Toshiba news.
1) It's great news. Absolutely.
2) However, a) it's still quite a ways in the future, b) PCs and workstations make up 65% of the total available market for RDRAM (50% = PCs, 15% = workstations) while games, HDTV and all other uses make up 35%, so this helps them win a portion of the "rest" of the pie, and c) I didn't get from the article that the Toshiba processing core supports RDRAM (for switching, etc.) but that they've added on the RDRAM support for the game application (of course, once that's done, the hard work is over and they can duplicate it easily).
3) If #2 sounds disheartening, go back and read #1 a couple of times <G>
Really, it is great. This helps them capture the other 50% of the market they've always said they could also get (where they lump workstations into the Other category). It also helps answer the concern we had last fall about Nintendo dumping Rambus. If Sony is picking them up, then who else would Nintendo go with? Ain't nobody there except our friends.
Incidentally, I suspect that a lot of the unannounced design wins are switches and routers, where speed is critical. Just a hunch.
And all this just supports the fact that this is going to be THE standard very quickly. If they could just GET IT OUT THE DOOR... <G>
Dave B |
