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To: Ali Chen who wrote (38966)	3/28/2000 11:56:00 AM
From: Don Green	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Kentron Technologies Announces 'Quad Band Memory' Technology, Doubling Bandwidth of the Fastest Memory Chips Story Filed: Tuesday, March 28, 2000 10:58 AM EST WILMINGTON, Mass., Mar 28, 2000 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Kentron Technologies, a leader in next generation memory architectures today announced its Quad Band Memory (QBMtm) Technology that is designed to generate double the bandwidth of the fastest Double Data Rate (DDR) memory chip. While DDR will generate up to 2.1GB/sec bandwidth, and Rambus is expected to generate 1.6GB/sec, Kentron's QBM technology will permit DDR to generate over 4.2GB/sec, providing significant performance advantages to computing hardware. The new memory architecture speeds up the performance of processors used in Network Servers, Routers, Telecommunications hardware as well as Internet hardware. The QBM technology may also be applied to wireless and portable applications. Due to the overwhelming growth in data sent over the Internet, computer hardware manufacturers have been looking for new ways to create faster, more powerful solutions for worldwide communications and E-commerce. Kentron Technologies has focused on memory solutions to address the growing requirements of the Internet infrastructure. Quad Band Memory (QBM) is based on the DDR chip technology being endorsed by the largest computer manufacturers and memory chip manufacturers including IBM, Samsung, Micron, Infineon, NEC, Hyundai, Hitachi, and Mitsubishi, as well as Intel and Microsoft's new X-BOX. The semiconductor engineering standardization body (JEDEC) has also endorsed DDR chip technology as the next industry standard. "While rival technologies are battling to win the war of next generation memory, Kentron's QBM provides twice the bandwidth of the fastest DDR chip at the same cost curve," stated Robert Goodman, Chief Executive Officer at Kentron Technologies. "While DDR provides twice as much data at the same clock speed, QBM provides four times as much data at the same clock speed," added Goodman.

To: Ali Chen who wrote (38966)	3/28/2000 12:41:00 PM
From: jim kelley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

It is too early to answer your question. The PS-II will account for sales of 3 million RDRAM chips and 1.5 million controller chips this quarter. However, it is impossible to know how many new designs are in the works for coming quarters from the communications companies. The X-Box is vaporware currently and will not contribute any sales for at least a year( they will use the new RDRAM despite initial reference to DDR-IMO). RAMBUS will not preannounce any company's product. The PC sales can be predicted from the INTEL roadmap for RDRAM. The medium and high end PC's should be completely RDRAM by the end of 2002. The low cost PC's should be about half RDRAM by the end of 2003. By the end of 2003 there will be about 180 Million PC's being sold per year.