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

To: dumbmoney who wrote (30524)	9/24/1999 4:31:00 PM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

dumbmoney, No. I guess it depends on what you mean by "high performance". If you mean 8-way SMP machines, yeah, they might use DDR. But not mainstream high-performance machines. There's just no reason. Let's face it, nobody would even be considering using Rambus on mainstream high-performance PCs if Intel weren't pushing it. Did you also say that no one would ever need more than a 25Mhz 386 processor? Or a 10M hard drive? Why do we need faster memory at all? Let's just stay with PC-100. Or maybe go back to 66Mhz SDRAM. Or 33Mhz SDRAM. Why bother with Ultra ATA? Let's just go back to the original Western Digital drive interface! The operating system you're using on your PC today is a multi-tasking environment that 20 years ago could only be found on systems that cost hundreds of thousands, if not millions, of dollars. You have more MIPS on your desktop than mainframes had then. Don't you know that almost every technology that starts at the high-end eventually works its way down into the mainstream. That, in fact, is the key issue here. Whichever technology captures the high-performance PC segment first will probably be the technology that is the standard on all PCs in 3 years. How very shortsighted you are being! Dave