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

To: Steve Lee who wrote (46851)	7/10/2000 9:11:13 AM
From: Joe NYC	Respond to of 93625

Steve, My money says Timna will see the light of day. I think you are right Willamette with Rambus will take the high end. Timna with Rambus will compete with Athlon in the low end. Some version of Timna will compete with some version of Athlon (Duron) at some point in the future. I can agree on that. But performance at such a low end is usually not talked about very much. I think the ideal platform to show off the advantages of Rambus would be a single processor high performance system with on chip Rambus memory controller. The high end Willamette systems may be fast, but the memory interface will suffer from the same problems as what Richard's note described: Message 14015955 Because the width of the RDRAM channel is limited, it must pump 4 16-bit words to fill the 64-bit word that the processor is expecting. This results in an increased latency over SDRAM. The i820 must also translate from SDRAM addressing to RDRAM addressing, and that is no small feat either. Also, the processor is really not designed to take advantage of some of the strengths of RDRAM. The "wow" factor here is that you got the two systems to talk to one another at all. Joe