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To: Bilow who wrote (43076)	5/27/2000 3:14:00 AM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 93625

Hi all; Note on Samsung's reduction of support for RDRAM... Per the above post, a possible explanation for Samsung going cold on RDRAM is that they lost (fired???) the executive who was most responsible for pushing it: Samsung started out the year gung-ho for RDRAM: Samsung Says 288-Mbit Rambus DRAM Is Ready January 3, 2000 Samsung said it plans to accelerate production of Rambus memories in general to serve a market segment that is expected to be about 10 percent, or $3 billion, of the total DRAM business in 2000. techweb.com Something strange happened on January 10: Samsung exec joins Rambus as DRAM battle lines are drawn January 10, 2000 Avo Kanadjian, veteran senior vice president of memory marketing at Samsung Semiconductor, San Jose, resigned to join Rambus as vice president of worldwide marketing. He was succeeded by Robert Eminian, vice president of e-commerce at the Korean chip maker's U.S. subsidiary. Samsung's Eminian, long regarded as an outspoken advocate of the rival DDR SDRAM, will now also back Direct RDRAM in his new marketing post. techweb.com One wonders whether the move up was enough to convince Eminian to really be a staunch advocate of RDRAM. Maybe it wasn't and that's the reason that Samsung didn't break ranks with the other memory houses. Or maybe... -- Carl