To: mishedlo who wrote (56772 ) 4/14/2001 11:46:13 PM From: Bilow Respond to Hi all; Here's ptnewell's comments on DDR from last October:The Rambus investment thesis depends upon gaining royalty rights to a significant share of the DRAM market, either through the success of RDRAM or through the enforcement of broad patent rights essentially covering all current and proposed forms of high speed memory. Lately discussion has centered on the latter approach, stressing vigorous enforcement of IP.Is DDR dead? Certainly not. The correct term is "stillborn". DDR, after all has never drawn the breath of life outside graphics cards. Many DDR skeptics doubted whether 266 MHz DDR was possible, and whether even at the 200 MHz level a DDR motherboard could support more than two DIMMs. Of course if the address lines are registered, a larger number of DIMMs could be supported, but this would add considerably to the cost (and incidentally introduce additional latency). (ptnewell, posted by mishedlo, October 5, 2000, #reply-14522852 ).Re: Face the Facts ... sure, we were suckers not to sell at $127. Anyway, I feel that way. messages.yahoo.com
