To: Dan3 who wrote (34472 ) 11/14/1999 1:10:00 PM From: Glenn Norman Read Replies (3) | Respond to
Yo_Dan3...............I post on this board because I am tired of all the SEA GULL CRAP including YOURS You seem furious that anyone would question the notion that rambus will dominate the market for DRAM soon why are you on this message board? A functional market, like a stock market, is theoretically always presenting the perfect price, based upon the best available information . Since that information is constantly changing, so is the price. The point of a group such as this is to try to stay current with that information and to ferret out possible wrong interpretations .best available information means verifiable company sourced, publicly published information I agree 100%!The rambus long case (if I may try to sum it up - correct me if I am in error) in a nutshell, is; Rambus is faster than SDRAM and not much more expensive, and even if it isn't, Intel will force the market to use it anyway .NO legitimate press realease that says RAMBUS is supposed to REPLACE all other types of memory either NOW OR IN THE FUTURE. If you have a legitimate company press release that states RAMBUS is supposed to replace all other memory types 100%, please post a link to the release.The alternative is that Rambus is no faster or even slower than PC133/DDR, much more expensive, and that not even Intel can force an unsuitable solution onto the industry. Now PC133 has shipped before Rambus ,....... and working, pre-production DDR chipsets from several vendors are being shown at Comdex by several vendors. Those tests that are available don't show an overwhelming benefit from any of the memory technologies. MORE DAN3 FUDD .Early pricing is now out with Rambus costing about 4 times as much as PCXXX. You can buy an entire PC with 128 meg of SDRAM for the price of 128 meg of Rambus (though I expect the price to come down in the next 6 months to where Rambus is only 2 times the cost of other types of memory, it could take more or less time) AMD had a near flawless launch of the Athlon .........camino / coppermine was late and buggy, and the OEMs that dumped AMD for Intel have been hurt, at least temporarily, in their market positions. ............... Intel needs to apologize with its actions and has since announced support for both PC133 and DDR technologies and said it would leave the choice of memory up to the OEMs. .........The near term (next year or the year after) dominance of the memory market by Rambus looks very unlikely, Rambus will either be a niche solution or gone completely in that time frame -..........MORE DAN3 FUDD because it is your OPINION and not a proven fact.I would be interested in seeing any calm, reasoned contradictory arguments. I could easily be missing something in which case I should change my position, but demands for "tablets written by the hand of God" just reinforce my conclusion that a bunch of fools are keeping the price as high as it is right now, and that it will soon come crashing down .CAN NOT provide this thread of "FOOLS" IRREFUTABLE PROOF [such as "tablets written by the hand of GOD"] that RAMBUS is a "niche player or will be gone in a year" Then get the hell out of here and go spread your SEA GULL CRAP somewhere eles because we are tired of your sh@t!
