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To: Scumbria who wrote (105788)7/18/2000 11:05:55 AM
From: Tony Viola  Respond to of 186894
 
Scumbria, >Intel pact with Rambus prohibits DDR chip sets for three years

electic.com

What was Intel's management thinking of?


Beats me. The only saving grace is that it was from a pact 3 years ago. Opinions have changed. It sure was a tail wagging the dog pact, though.

Tony



To: Scumbria who wrote (105788)7/18/2000 11:30:51 AM
From: Road Walker  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 186894
 
Scumbria,

re: "What was Intel's management thinking of?"

When the original agreement was signed in 1997, there was less effective high end competition from AMD. I'm sure that Intel felt that they would have little or no problem influencing the high end memory standard, Intel was the only game in town. Right or wrong, I would guess that's "what they were thinking".

John



To: Scumbria who wrote (105788)7/18/2000 3:23:46 PM
From: Paul Engel  Read Replies (3) | Respond to of 186894
 
SCUMbria - Re: "Intel pact with Rambus prohibits DDR chip sets for three years
electic.com
What was Intel's management thinking of?"

I can't bring up that URL - but it seems that IF Intel signed that agreement in 1997, EVERYBODY ELSE must have signed it also !!

It has been THREE YEARS since then and neither AMD nor anybody in the PC business has brought out a production DDR chip set.

Maybe Intel really knew what they were doing after all !!

Paul