NEC Launches 128MB Rambus DRAM 03/15/99
Newsbytes, Monday, March 15, 1999 at 04:47
(Published on Sunday, March 14, 1999 at 22:47)
TOKYO, JAPAN, 1999 MAR 15 (NB) -- By Martyn Williams, Newsbytes. NEC
Corp. [TOKYO:6701] has announced the commercial availability of a
128 megabit Direct Rambus DRAM becoming the first computer memory
maker to debut such a device.
The new chip, which operates at 800 megahertz and offers 1.6 gigabytes
per second of peak bandwidth, will be offered as a single package
and built into a 184-pin, 128 megabyte Rambus inline memory module
(RIMM). It will be available in volume quantities from July this year
and production is scheduled to hit 3 million units per month by the
end of 1999.
Backed by Intel Corp. [NASDAQ:INTC], the chips are based on
proprietary technology by Rambus Inc. [NASDAQ:RMBS]. Use of Rambus
DRAM chips is expected to take off this year with, on a bit-basis,
output of Rambus chips making up around 9 percent of all DRAM output
by the end of this year. This figure is expected to climb to 50 percent
in 2001.
Reported By Newsbytes News Network, newsbytes.com
(19990315/WIRES ASIA, PC/)
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