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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (96653)	3/3/2000 8:21:00 PM
From: kash johal	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1574678

Tench, re:Otellini and Yu Both these guys did GREAT in the early 90's. But then the peter principle happened. And they are stuck with hundreds of millions of dollars of stock options. If you read the BW article. Cisco's top management ranks are full of senior execs of acquired companies. At Intel the politics and ass kissing is so bad that only the Intel survive. None of the outsiders has survived and certainly not as top executive staff. Thats a pretty significant indictment i would say. Just look what they did with Intel Online services. They put a fab guy in charge of web hosting. Barret has another 2 years to screw around with the diwursification before he gets chopped. regards, Kash

To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (96653)	3/3/2000 9:56:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1574678

Tenchusatsu, actually Intel's current stance is for Rambus in desktops and workstations, and DDR SDRAM in servers. Do you know what the reasoning behind this stance is? I mean technical reasoning. only thing holding it back right now is the high price of RIMMs There was a post either here or on JCs pointing to inherent reason in Rambus design that make it more expensive because (I believe) it is more complex, hard to test and power hungry. Given this and if the difference can never be overcome using today's process technology, and supposing that the cost will always be 25% or 50% more expensive than say PC-133 SDRAM. Wouldn't 25% or 50% increase in SDRAM in the computer pretty much always overcome whatever inherent strength Rambus has? Joe