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Politics : Ask Michael Burke -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Skeeter Bug who wrote (76529)	2/25/2000 10:14:00 AM
From: Steve Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 132070

Michael, That's not right. All RMBS product sells. You cannot buy the damn stuff it is so sold out. Very few people are buying it relative to those who want it. Price is determined by supply and demand - not cost of manufacture. Intel has not said it doesn't see RMBS in the areas you mention. That is just plain imagination. Have you heard of the Timna chip for the sub $500 dollar PC (Celeron's successor)? It talks native RMBS. They are having to put a SDRAM converter on it because at the moment RMBS prices are too high because of demand! Intel knows what the state of the RMBS manufacturing ramps are - that is why Timna is a RMBS product. Did you see Samsung's announcement to build a sub $200 PC using exclusively Rambus? These machines are going to be sealed against upgrade and are for the really really cheapie market. You are also wrong with your server statement. Intel announced at IDF their Willamette chipset which, allows processors to be added 4 at a time. Up to, from memory, 32 processors, supporting RDRAM upto 16 GB of current RDRAM or 32GB of the 576Mbit RDRAM when it is available. The whole DRAM and microprocessor industry knows that the future is Rambus. Even Sun has announced that Rambus is the memory to be used in its MAJC chip - another low end, cheap Rambus application. Can you provide some evidence of the superiority of DDR? It is not even shipping in quantity, and the parts that have sampled have problems with both yield and stability. Where are you getting your info from? It is plain wrong!