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To: Mihaela who wrote (50450)8/20/2000 8:07:21 PM
From: Bilow  Read Replies (2) | Respond to of 93625
 
Hi Mihaela; Today's RDRAM and DDR news from ixbt:

Rambus Won't Prevent from Buying P4 [3:36 pm] [Rat]
The closer appears Intel Pentium 4 launching, the cheaper get Rambus RIMMs. The Register reports about the price drop on RIMM modules. Here is a clip:

Figures from a number of online sources confirm the onward trend of the price cuts downwards, with for example, the lowest end use price for a PC800 128MB RIMM costing $259. Similar RIMMs from 12 other vendors have prices in between $260 and $300.

Taking into account that the cheapest Pentium 4 by the time it is launched will be around $800, Rambus RIMMs don’t seem so crazily expensive any more. So, it won’t be the main obstacle preventing the users from assembling a system with Pentium 4 and RDRAM. Although DDR SDRAM systems will be faster, no doubt, the chipsets for Pentium 4 with DDR SDRAM support will start appearing in volume only the second half of next year.


ALi to Showcase Its DDR Chipsets [5:44 am] Rat
Acer Laboratories Inc. (ALi) will demonstrate its newly introduced core logic chipset families in Comdex Korea on 23-26 August: ALiMAGiK 1 and MobileMAGiK 1, which support the AMD SlotA/SocketA processor family, and AladdinPro 5 and AladdinPro 5M, which support the Intel Slot1/Socket 370 processor family. ALi unveiled its first double-data-rate (DDR) SDRAM-enabled chipset families to the market, with live system demonstrations in July (you can find the details in our news archives).

Well, since the chips are going to be demonstrated so soon, then the working samples should be ready and it means that a little bit later we will see first mainboards with the so long awaited DDR SDRAM support.

ixbt-labs.com

-- Carl

P.S. Are we allowed to post news on this thread? I thought it was insults only...

P.P.S. I find myself constantly, when typing "surckla" mistyping it as "suckla". If I ever let one of these slip past it was completely unintentional. The fact is that for speed typists like myself, surckla is hard to type. The reason, I think, is that the "surck" string doesn't show up in English often enough to get hardwired into your brain. (I type by words or syllables, not characters. "Suck" is a standard English syllable, "surck" is not, and is harder to type.)



To: Mihaela who wrote (50450)8/20/2000 10:08:40 PM
From: Jdaasoc  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 93625
 
mihaela:

a computer with thousands of Alpha processors

All with RDRAM interfaces no doubt.

www6.compaq.com

Excellent find mihaela. I was going to post this link Friday but I could not see at that time that a story about a ASCI computer was going to important for RMBS this coming week.

john



To: Mihaela who wrote (50450)8/21/2000 1:27:59 AM
From: Scumbria  Respond to of 93625
 
Mihalea,

The 21364 chip??

After three months of trouble, finally some good news from Los Alamos.

BTW: I used to babysit the author of that article. ;^))

Scumbria