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To: blake_paterson who wrote (47141)	7/12/2000 10:27:04 PM
From: blake_paterson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

NEC Denies Report of 128Mb Direct Rambus DRAM Production Termination nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com July 12, 2000 (TOKYO) -- NEC Corp. on July 11 issued a statement refuting a report in the morning edition of the Nihon Keizai Shimbun that it plans to halt production of 128Mb Direct Rambus DRAM (D-RDRAM). NEC said it will maintain the current production level of 1 million 128Mb D-RDRAMs per month for the time being, while gradually increasing output of 288Mb D-RDRAMs to 150,000 by September, 750,000 units by December and 1.25 million units by March 2001. The company started producing 288Mb D-RDRAMs in June. In the paper, it said NEC has halted production of 128Mb Direct Rambus DRAMs used in personal computers because it believes it cannot compete against cheaper synchronous DRAMs, currently the most widely used chip in the industry. (BizTech News Dept.)

To: blake_paterson who wrote (47141)	7/12/2000 10:32:18 PM
From: richard surckla	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

blake, all longs... "Rambus Develops 3.125-Gbit/s Serial Interface" RAMBUS NEWS!! Thanks to yoursuit.... nikkeibp.asiabiztech.com Rambus Develops 3.125-Gbit/s Serial Interface Rambus Inc has developed the SerDes serial interface with a peak data transfer rate of 3.125 Gbits/s. Unlike existing Rambus interfaces for dynamic random access memory (DRAM), the new device is designed to interconnect the printed circuit boards mounted in networking and related equipment. Connection is point-to-point, and no specifications have been defined for the logical layer protocol format or physical connectors. The firm recommends selecting a connector from among those currently available. The driver circuit converts an 8-bit wide parallel data stream into a 1-bit serial stream, using 8B/10B encoding. As a result, the peak data transfer rate is 2.5 Gbits/s. Two signal lines are used per channel for data transfer, in a differential scheme. The supply is +1.8V or +2.5V, and the signal amplitude is 0.5V on the driver side and 0.25V on the receiver side. Maximum signal path length between driver and receiver is about 30 inches. Rambus will license a macrocell needed to design integrated circuits (IC) for the interface, each consisting of a 4-channel SerDes interface circuit. The macrocell has the same chip footprint as DirectRambus when using a 0.18-micron rule, about 3 to 4mm2. The firm also plans to supply macrocells with higher channel counts. (July 2000 Issue, Nikkei Electronics Asia)