PC133 SDRAMs will debut in June, industry meeting is
told
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Story posted 9:30 a.m. EST/6:30 a.m., PST, 3/11/99
SAN JOSE-- A jammed industry meeting on PC133 SDRAMs this week in San Jose was told that
PC desktop and servers with the new memory chip will be introduced in June.
Reliance Computer Corp., a San Jose-based chip-set maker, sponsored the PC133 session, which
drew 150 representatives from PC companies, memory vendors, chip-set makers, and
microprocessor producers. Originally slated to take place at Reliance's headquarters, the meeting
was moved to a nearby hotel to accommodate the overflow crowd.
The June launch of single-data-rate PC133 SDRAMs and interfacing chip sets sets up a
head-to-head confrontation with high-speed Direct Rambus DRAMs, whose debut has slipped to
the end of the third quarter. The PC133 offers a faster interim memory chip, threatening to further
push back the market ramp for Direct RDRAM, which is also expected to debut with at a higher
price. The single-data-rate PC133 can also be upgraded easily to an even faster double-data-rate
version, expected to come on the market about the same time as Direct RDRAM. |
