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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: richard surckla who wrote (24075)	7/1/1999 11:35:00 PM
From: richard surckla	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 93625

Found this on another site: Q. What is the point to have 800mhz Rambus but the system bus only run 133mhz..?? A. Richard, that's an embarrasingly good question. For one thing, the FSB to the Camino i820 is 64 bits wide and runs at 133MHz. The Rambus (D-RDRAM) is only 16 bits wide or 18 bits if ECC is used. So Rambus is like a 64-bit 200MHz packet bus as far as data rate is concerned. Tom Pabst has just revealed that the "advantage" Rambus has over PC100 is essentially zero and that its "advantage" over PC133 is in fact negative. This is probably why Intel is furiously sueing VIA for trying to sell PC133-compliant chipsets. (Tom's comparison is for standard desktop PCs. Rambus probably will have an advantage when used with 8-way SMP server boxes and also for the legendary but extremely rare super-multimedia boxes with streaming video going in 7 different directions simultaneously.) I do have one good thing to say for Rambus: a PC memory system built around D-RDRAM does have a low pin count.