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To: Daniel Schuh who wrote (96017)	3/1/2000 1:30:00 PM
From: brushwud	Respond to of 1574679

wonder if you could comment on this article on Rambus production problems? It's from usenet, so I certainly wouldn't take it that seriously Why not take a Usenet posting seriously? The quality over there can be quite excellent, especially in certain groups. Anyway, I don't have a Ph.D. in magnetohydrodynamics, but it kind of reminds me of 25 years or so ago when Intel was trying to sell people on the idea of CCD memory. Not only were they making the chips, but they had a board division devoted to finding applications for them. CCDs had a simpler cell than DRAMs, and so theoretically could be made more cheaply. But it turned out that the economics were all on the DRAM side: since demand was greater for DRAMs, they got the volume, and the volume led to price reduction, and eventually CCDs couldn't compete because they weren't general-purpose enough. A similar thing is happening today between RDRAM & DDR SDRAM.