New EE-Times articles on Rambus technology...
A tough move to Rambus
Mark Ellsberry, in charge of DRAM marketing at Hyundai, said the Intel decision to delay the Camino rollout until the end of September has made it hard to maintain enthusiasm for Rambus.
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Dell Computer, which pushes the memory transitions harder than most other PC OEMs, got word of the delay just a few days before the Intel Developer Forum and remains "very, very angry," according to one source. And if RDRAMs are expensive, MIS managers may no longer ask Dell to build in that extra 32-Mbyte module or two . . . so cheap, so easy, so desirable.
One worry bandied about is that the Rambus-based systems don't deliver much of a system-level performance improvement on most applications. Intel Fellow Peter MacWilliams dodged a question about performance gains at the the developers forum, saying "We are not ready to talk about that yet."
While the Nintendo videogames derived a boost from the one or two RDRAMs on the board, it is undoubtedly harder to get that boost from two or three Rambus in-line memory modules, where the signals must traverse the module, through sockets.
techweb.com
Meanwhile, SDRAM marches onward:
Samsung steps up SDRAM target
Samsung Electronics Co. Inc. has begun mass-producing 256-Mbyte synchronous DRAMs, six months ahead of its competitors, the company said.
techweb.com
-- Carl |
