Hi Zeev Hed; Interesting rambus article here:
Intel supports 700-MHz Rambus as Double-Data-Rate backers ready 266-MHz parts -- Rambus slows as DDR gains in DRAM race
techweb.com
David Lammers
Santa Clara, Calif. - Intel Corp. continued last week to back off on its speed claims for Direct Rambus, leaving systems OEMs skeptical about the value of the proprietary technology. At the same time, the relatively quiet multivendor Double Data Rate (DDR) DRAM effort showed new signs of aggressiveness, boasting 133-MHz DDR parts and dropping hints of higher speeds. Overall, the message for the personal computer main-memory market seemed to be that DDR DRAMs will soon approach the peak throughput, and in fact beat the latency of the Rambus devices.
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I've posted quite a bit about rambus, over the years. Some samples:
August 29, 1997
Unless you want to take the chance of making a chip that will only
work with a memory type that is unavailable, you never, ever, ever
design a processor that runs with only a single type of RAM. Memory
is always going on allocation, and that means that your CPU sales
will be limited, and your competitor capable of using the RAM types
not on allocation grabs your sales.
Message 2082162
(Read the rest of the above quote to see where I was very wrong about how smart Intel is...)
December 15, 1998
Incidentally, I feel the same way about the scalability of RDRAM as the paragraph quoted above.
Message 6838137
March 7, 1999:
Like I've said before, Intel's decision to support only a Rambus memory interface on its new processor was magnificently stupid.
Message 8190430
-- Carl |
