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

To: Don Green who wrote (35904)	12/16/1999 5:47:00 PM
From: Don Green	Respond to of 93625

Putting New Technology to Work in a Growing Market The rapid emergence of Rambus¨ technology has sent vendors scrambling to provide sockets that will test and burn-in Rambus-enabled memory ICs cost-effectively and to spec. - By Ron Iscoff, Editor (Not sure if this article made the rounds.. really hard to keep track! ) Texas Instruments has expanded its Rambus burn-in sockets with an open-top, auto load/unload design for ease-of-use. The new sockets handle smaller RDRAM pitches, down to 0.75 mm, and a greater range of I/Os. With Rambus technology's acceptance by several giants in the semiconductor world, including Intel, the need to produce test and burn-in sockets to handle Rambus RDRAM has become a matter of urgency for most socket makers. A key difference in both test and burn-in sockets for Rambus-based DRAMs (RDRAM) devices compared to standard memory ICs, is the tighter electrical requirements, including inductance and capacitance, according to Melissa Frank, Rambus' manager of infrastructure and validation engineering, Mountain View, Calif. chipscalereview.com