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To: pat mudge who wrote (7198)	12/28/1999 5:54:00 PM
From: Harvey Allen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 14464

Pat- Roll up your sleeves and keep swinging. Intel's pursuit of memory options keeps the door open for Ramtron. After all we are www.pc133memory.com. Intel cuddles up to Jedec SDRAM standards Sources said that Intel has an important meeting with industry standards body Jedec at the beginning of next year. Jedec is a semiconductor standards body which brings together a number of important manufacturers to agree specifications for future technology. One of those future technologies is SDRAM and double data rate (DDR) memory, standards which Intel is being forced to accept in the face of industry teeth. According to our source, Intel will meet the Jedec standards people early in the new year and will discuss how it and the industry can successfully promote PC-133 and double data rate (DDR) memory. Intel will also talk to AMI on how to implement support for these controversial memory standards in the BIOS. As we reported earlier this year, Intel is attempting to rush out chipsets Solano II and Amador after coming under pressure from its PC customers to, as it were, go with the flow, rather than back Rambus Ink all the way. If you wish to view what Jedec standards are like, have a decko at these DDR and SDRAM pages. theregister.co.uk

To: pat mudge who wrote (7198)	12/28/1999 6:53:00 PM
From: Carl R.	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 14464

Pat, both RMBS and RMTR have a variety of patents in the area of memory technology. RMBS is responsible for RDRAM and DRDRAM, or Rambus DRAM. Intel earlier had embraced it as the next generation of memory technology. Unfortunately it is significantly harder to implement than Intel had expected, which has caused numerous delays in the 820 chipset, and also it is about 50% more expensive than standard DRAM. At this point it appears that the next generation of DRAM will be DDR dram, which tests out as significantly faster than RDRAM and also costs only slightly more than standard DRAM. RMTR has some interesting memory technologies as well. These include FeRAM, which is a non-volatile static memory (i.e. it doesn't lose it's data when power is turned off). So far as I know it primarily competes with such technologies as EAPROMs and Flash. I believe it is significantly faster than either. Someone more familiar than myself with the products can probably clear this up. RMTR also has a high speed memory technology, called EDRAM. I have no idea where it is currently being used, nor how it's speed compares to RDRAM or DDR DRAM. Again, someone else could perhaps clear this up. Since to a certain extent RDRAM and DDR DRAM are competitors of EDRAM, I would consider news on RMBS to be relevant. Carl