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To: 100cfm who wrote (20903)	3/21/2000 10:12:00 AM
From: Mike Buckley	Respond to of 54805

This press release might partly explain why Rambus is down 15% in the first half-hour of trading. --Mike Buckley ================================ Armonk, New York, March 21 (Bloomberg) -- International Business Machines Corp., the world's largest computer maker, unveiled computer memory chips that it said can send twice as much data to a microprocessor as current products. Memory enhancements speed up the performance of processors. IBM's servers, which run networks of personal computers and Web sites, will be the first to use the new chips. IBM and other server makers are looking for ways to develop faster computers to handle an onslaught of data from the Internet. Some companies are focusing on speeding up PCs, while others such as IBM want to make server memory and processors faster. ``While much attention has been given to the race to 1 gigahertz (processors) for PCs, server-system performance is likely to have a much greater impact on e-commerce and the Internet economy,' said Hank Geipel, an IBM vice president for advanced products and technology development. IBM's new chips may be a further setback for Rambus Inc. because they're based on double data rate technology, or DDR, a rival to Rambus chips. Mountain View, California-based Rambus's shares fell 20 percent yesterday after a popular Web site said its chips didn't work as well as older and cheaper memory. DDR chips are better for bigger servers and Rambus is more suited for PCs, IBM said. ``It's not that we're touting DDR over Rambus,' said Mark Kellogg, a senior technical staff member in IBM's memory operation.