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To: capt rocky who wrote (30633)	9/25/1999 10:56:00 AM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 93625

Re: is rmbs tech. flawed, or is intc tech flawed? I think it's more a case of management being flawed. If you read Bilow's recent posts (who is almost certainly the most knowledgeable memory expert on this thread, and is evidently more knowledgeable than anyone at Rambus or Intel), he presents a compelling case that rambus is technically feasible, but impractical, and therefore not really feasible. Sometimes metaphors are fun to help characterize things. Rambus seem to me to be like installing a dual sequential turbo chargers with sequential water and air intercoolers on a 98 cubic inch diesel engine to power a big sport utility vehicle. Sure you might be able to get it to work, but never dependably, it will cost a fortune, and it still may not outperform a cheap, reliable, 400 cu. in. overhead valve V8. Neither Intel nor Rambus technology is flawed, it's just that the basic approach was not a sensible one. If these systems are ever released into general use, they sound like they will have higher failure rates and shorter service lives than any of the alternatives. Any time a dust ball or data cable blocks the airflow over the RIMM, there is a chance that the system will start experiencing intermittent data errors. If a second RIMM is added with slightly different characteristics than the ones that were available when the system was qualified it could start experiencing intermittent data errors. Who needs it? Dan