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

To: Scumbria who wrote (44152)	6/12/2000 11:31:00 AM
From: Steve Lee	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Do we really have to go over this again? 1) Your original point was that Intel's decision to use DDR for servers, rather than RMBS, was a reflection of RMBS performance. 2) My counter was that the consideration was not the bandwidth of the RAM interface, but the RAM capacity. 3) You then came up with your waffle on "effective bandwidth" which allows for the transfer of data from disk. This was a deceitful attempt by you to confuse the bandwidth I was talking about (RAM interface) with your "effective bandwidth" (including transfers from disk). Of course this "effective bandwidth" is important. The best ways to improve this are to increase total RAM or speed up the disk subsystem. Switching between DRDRAM or DDR will be negligible in comparison for a server, hence Intel's decision on server chipsets. You were deceitfully trying to take one limiting factor of Rambus (the memory capacity that one Rambus channel can support) and use one of its effects (the fact that Intel is not using it in server chipsets) to discredit Rambus technology in general by infering that its "bandwidth" is inferior. Then you have come up with links which talk about "effective bandwidth" to try and prove your point to those that are not technically aware enough to see your deceit. If this was a confusion on your part, then fair enough, but I reckon you are knowledgable enough to know what you were doing so have no qualms about labling you as deceitful.