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To: Alighieri who wrote (126953)	10/29/2000 11:06:15 AM
From: Estephen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1575939

DDR SDRAM has failed to do what AMD, Micron, Infineon, and Hyundai had hoped it would do. Had DDR SRAM been introduced when they had planned for it to be introduced it would have given AMD an advantage over Intel. AMD would have the lions share of the market with the less costly and high performing DRAM. As we know and as Rambus stated recently, DDR DRAM is having problems. Now that processor speeds are moving upwards with the next generation of microprocessor DDR SDRAM is nearing its speed limits in the market without having the opportunity of being in full production. It has missed the first part of its product life cycle. It still has a market niche and will have it for a little while, but its limited clock speed prevents it from being developed for computer processing in the future and it is a dead end road. In summary, DDR SDRAM is a memory that could have been a huge success for AMD and some MM's but has not done so because of design problems which have caused it to be, as Rambus has said, too little too late. RDRAM could have given INTEL the lions share of the market earlier had it not been expensive. They had hoped that RDRAM would have allowed the to dominate the processor and chipset market but were disappointed by the high costs of RDRAM. The fact that RDRAM will have increasing clock speeds gives RDRAM an expanded life cycle and INTEL has the lead with the P4 designed to use RDRAM. It is easy to see where those who support AMD are upset with Rambus since AMD has based its design on it while Rambus has put down DDR DRAM and charges higher royalties for it. We will soon see how RDRAM performs with the P4 and IMO RDRAM will help the P4 to be a huge success.http://board.fool.com/Message.asp?mid=13584966&sort=postdate