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

To: Zeev Hed who wrote (36876)	2/4/2000 11:07:00 AM
From: jim kelley	Respond to of 93625

Of course, you have to look at the total costs.

To: Zeev Hed who wrote (36876)	2/6/2000 2:31:00 PM
From: wily	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Excerpts from Tom's review of Micron's Samurai DDR chipset prototype: www7.tomshardware.com >>The Samurai DDR platform we tested was no way near a production motherboard. The motherboard was an engineering prototype that was twice the size of a typical board. The board supported dual CPU's, included an AGP Pro50-slot, 5 PCI slots, 2 USB ports, 2 serial ports, 1 parallel port, no ISA slots, and utilized the same south bridge as a 440BX based platform.<< >>It looks like Micron is heading in the right direction with their upcoming Samurai DDR chipset. The upcoming chipset was able to keep pace with Intel's high-end i840 platform through our suite of tests. Looking at the performance DDR SDRAM has to offer it makes me wonder why Intel decided against it and chose RDRAM. Manufacturing DDR memory isn't much different than that of standard SDRAM versus the entirely new process and equipment required for RDRAM. The die size for DDR is only about 5% larger than that of SDRAM versus RDRAMs 10-15% larger die size. The price of DDR SDRAM should be much more reasonable than the outrageous pricing for RDRAM that is nearly 5 times the price of SDRAM.<< Of course he leaves out mention of the best and most likely prospects for Rambus application: Timna and other integrated-type solutions such as Samsung's proposed "disposable" computer that could provide a mass-market stimulus to RDRAM production.