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

To: gnuman who wrote (42866)	5/23/2000 10:52:00 AM
From: richard surckla	Respond to of 93625

Gene, Avo Kanadjian on latency... (Q) FiringSquad: Everyone says that RDRAM has latency issues. How does RDRAM latency compare to SDRAM? Doesn't RDRAM have a significant delay as it switches between active and standby modes? (A) This is another misconception. You have to make a distinction between component level and system level measurements. In the worst case when the memory system is underutilized, Rambus system latency is comparable to that of an SDRAM system. When the memory system is heavily utilized, Rambus' high bandwidth architecture that efficiently supports concurrent memory transactions results in far better latency than SDRAMs. RDRAMs supports 4 power modes that allow performance and power consumption to be optimized. Between the two highest performance modes called active and standby there is no significant delay.