Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dave B who wrote (40368)	4/19/2000 5:04:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Dave, How soon do you think we'll see DDR-800? It is not clear to me that this sort of bandwidth is required until CPU's get well above 10GHz, which is probably more than 5 years away. Scumbria

To: Dave B who wrote (40368)	4/19/2000 5:10:00 PM
From: Joe NYC	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Dave, They can improve the speed and they can make the datapath wider. How soon do you think we'll see DDR-800? I don't know know what you call speed. Let's stick to latency and bandwidth. Is Rambus going to cut the latency in half? If the answer is yes, than what you say about future version RDRAM is positive. But if all Rambus is doing is improving bandwidth, it will have smaller and smaller effect on the performance, since the typical applications are generally not bandwidth limited. Just look at comparisons of 820 and 840 chipsets. The improvement of the double bandwidth is hardly noticeable. Joe