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To: Dan3 who wrote (67232)	8/1/1999 3:44:00 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1573930

Rambus no benefit on servers One last comment on rambus - then I promise I'll stop. It's been argued that rambus may have longer latency, but it's better on servers because it can stream data instead of bursting data with pauses in between. If you spec out a multiprocessor server, you'll see that the SDRAM has to be added in sets of 4. That's to 4 way interleave the memory so that by the time the controller gets around to each DIMM, it's ready to provide data. As a technology for high end servers, rambus has no advantage in terms of streaming data, and has a performance penalty due to latency. A server using 4 way interleaved DDRSDRAM 266 will have a significant advantage over one using DRDRAM... and both technologies are shipping in the same time frame.

To: Dan3 who wrote (67232)	8/1/1999 6:51:00 PM
From: grok	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573930

RE: <The companies with RAM foundries, with their huge capital investments at risk, can't be too happy about paying what will amount to something between a chunk of and all of their profits to rambus which has almost no capital at risk, just gain at the expense of the memory fab companies. It'd be pretty galling.> Yes, it is galling and that is part of the reason that most dram companies hate rambus with a passion. But, business is business and intel is creating a market for drdrams and so almost every dram maker is now a drdram maker. But, also, the high price on drdrams is an opportunity for the dram makers too. So there is, to some degree, a rush on to get some of those high prices.