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To: charred water who wrote (47660)	7/23/2000 5:09:11 AM
From: Eric K.	Respond to of 93625

Re: I was, however, somewhat chagrined to see that JEDEC associated attempt to develop a competitor to RMBS is being paid for with my tax dollars. Why? The DoD (and military spending on basic research, in general) is responsible for quite a few of this century's technological break-throughs. The Internet is one of the more hard to miss developments. It's great that at least a small chunk of military spending goes for fundamental academic research in many areas of technology that corporations, left to their own devices, would probably neglect. -Eric

To: charred water who wrote (47660)	7/23/2000 5:12:07 AM
From: NightOwl	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

CW, It appears that you and I are reading extremely different papers. But be that as it may, my appreciation for the "Conclusions" reported has nothing to do with DRDRAM. The good Professors were just exhibiting their scholarly approach by not mentioning the woeful performance of DRDRAM in their "Conclusions". It was after all a study of the two low latency DDR-II alternative proposals before JEDEC. There is simply no reason to do a "study" to find an alternative to DRDRAM. Everyone in Ann Arbor, DARPA, College Park, and most of the known universe, outside this list, are already aware of the deficiencies of the DRDRAM design. However, if you really want to feel "threatened" scroll back to page 13 and take a gander at the test results in the first two bar charts. Or you might want to just read the paragraph at the bottom of that page. Then again there's always the possibility of "reasonable" settlements of the ever growing list of RMBS IP. After all, they say RMBS has INTC by the short and curlies. That's got to be worth something. 0\|0 P.S. Save your questions and unfounded assertions for Carl. He will explain all, ...for the gabillionth time. It's been lots of fun but I have made my last post on this thread. If you want me I'll be in Life Boat No. 16. To you who have vowed to go down with the ship, I salute you.

To: charred water who wrote (47660)	7/23/2000 11:23:17 AM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 93625

Water, Do you know why Intel built a fab in Rio Rancho, New Mexico? The close proximity to Sandia and Los Alamos Labs has allowed Intel to develop a special relationship with the US government, and has given them access to, and use of, vast amounts of taxpayer funded IP. There is nothing illegal or unethical about this relationship. The transfer of technology between the National Labs and industry was mandated by Congress, and Intel was quite wise to take advantage. Other companies have complained that taxpayer funded technology has given Intel an unfair competitive advantage, but the same opportunities are open to all. Scumbria