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

To: Dan3 who wrote (28131)	8/30/1999 8:06:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

<DDR Performance may be slightly better or slightly worse than Rambus, but cost is lower and economic production volume can come sooner and more reliably since the technology is similar to what is already in place.> I've heard this before, but I have a tough time believing that the DDR concept is "low-hanging fruit." Unlike point-to-point double-pumped interfaces like AGP, Athlon bus, and Intel's "Accelerated Hub Architecture," DDR SDRAM isn't point-to-point. Maybe it's easier than I expected. Recent reports are an indication to me that DDR SDRAM may indeed be lower-cost than DRDRAM, at least initially. But from my own point-of-view, DRDRAM is still the memory technology of the future. Bandwidth-per-pin is perhaps the main reason. And that in turn leads to other advantages, from easy integration of the memory controller into the CPU, to employing multiple memory channels to double or quadruple Rambus bandwidth. You can't do either very easily with DDR SDRAM. Tenchusatsu