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

To: Joe NYC who wrote (40432)	4/19/2000 9:44:00 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Jozef, <If Rambus delivered the performance, I wouldn't question it. People spend incredible premiums buying the top of the line CPUs, even though the performance difference between the top of the line processor and a processor 50% cheaper may be only 10%.> You might want to look at Tom's own article comparing 820/RDRAM to Via/PC133: tomshardware.com Via's PC133 chipset could not beat the 820 in any benchmark, although in a lot of benchmarks, Via came very close. In workstation apps, however, 820/RDRAM pulled further ahead, even showing a 14% advantage over PC133 at one point. (No, I'm not including the results of Tom's overclocked 440BX system, since it's not valid as a production system.) I agree with Dave, the price of RDRAM must come down. There's no argument there. But RDRAM does indeed provide a performance benefit over PC133, contrary to what you just said in your post. Tenchusatsu