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To: richard surckla who wrote (123754)	9/12/2000 3:36:30 AM
From: Petz	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580035

suckla, <Asked the guy at Micro Center, he didn't know where DDR systems were> There are zero Rambus systems in Best Buy, CompUSA, Fry's so what's your point? Petz

To: richard surckla who wrote (123754)	9/12/2000 7:36:11 AM
From: stribe30	Respond to of 1580035

Richard; hope this post from Aces Hardware originally submitted by Milo on the mod thread answers your query. Also..I believe you will find something of interest at the same site after Wednesday of this week.. but I wont say for sure since I'm under self imposed "NDA" and I dont wish to steal the good fellows who run Aces Hardware of their thunder. DDR Chipsets/Motherboards In October (HARDWARE). Posted By Brian Neal Tuesday, September 5, 2000 - 4:46:33 AM A huge thanks to KH for letting me know about this Ctech Taiwan article regarding DDR SDRAM platform development by AMD, VIA, and ALI. The article includes some major news regarding production schedules and roadmaps for DDR chipsets and motherboards, here are the highlights: DDR chipsets for the AMD platform are starting to ship this month. Volume production of DDR chipsets from AMD, VIA, and ALI will start around end of September, beginning in October Currently AMD's DDR chipset leads the other two in terms of production: Gigabyte will release a DDR board in October based on AMD's DDR chipset AMD is giving ALI technology transfer to help ALI in DDR K7 chipset. ALI will release DDR chipset for K7 first, in "limited quantities" by October, and an Intel DDR version will follow later VIA, on the other hand, will release an Intel DDR chipset first, with the Athlon DDR chipset to follow about a month later Gigabyte, Asus, and MSI will all have DDR boards out in October. As you can see, Gigabyte is expected to have an Athlon DDR (AMD-760 based) motherboard sometime in October. ALI is the other core logic producer expected to have a chipset (in "limited quantities" anyway) that same month, while VIA will initially focus on a DDR version of its Apollo Pro GTL+/P6 chipset. aceshardware.com

To: richard surckla who wrote (123754)	9/12/2000 7:45:14 AM
From: stribe30	Respond to of 1580035

By the way Richard.. enlighten me on why you and some of your Rambus brethen on your thread are being so anti-DDR. IF Rambus owns the patent on DDR SDRAM, - as they claim -, and if they can prove that in a court of law, Rambus would be getting royalties off of DDR as well as RDRAM. I would think judging from the almost fanatical insistence on the Rambus thread that you do own the DDR patent and that you will prevail in the courts, it would be in your best interest to hope that DDR SDRAM and boards ramp up as soon as possible so that you can get royalties for it once this "guaranteed win" in the courts happens. Thus, the Rambus ppl are taking the wrong stance over DDR SDRAM by hoping it flops, when they should be cheering it on. The other conclusion of course that can be drawn from this fanatical opposition to DDR SDRAM and the wishful thinking it wont be released any time soon is that there is some insecurity over the court case and whether Rambus will win or not.. as well as the fact that DDR will prove a major hindrance to RDRAM's supposed domination of the desktop, because of its competitive performance (which is a given, since if PC133 SDRAM can outperform RDRAM, DDR SDRAM should more then hold its own.)