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To: Paul Engel who wrote (115131)	10/29/2000 3:42:42 PM
From: jim kelley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Yes Paul. Intel will be dependent on SDRAM and DDR in the future. The DDR will fetch a higher royalty rate for RAMBUS than RDRAM and it has the advantage that it does not scale to higher MHZ ratings. <G> Now that AMD is moving to RDRAM and Intel is moving to DDR we can expect to see AMD penetrating the workstation market and low end server markets formerly dominated by Intel. Good move Paul!

To: Paul Engel who wrote (115131)	10/29/2000 5:59:02 PM
From: Craig M. Newmark	Read Replies (5) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul and thread, Never mind about Rambus. Let's hope the Intel engineers are taking proper precautions for cosmic rays . . . From forbes.com "It happens not to all of them, and not all the time, but enough to cause problems for America Online, Ebay and dozens of other major corporate accounts, baffling Sun engineers who spent months trying to identify the problem. Adding to the mystery is Sun's own reticence.It has never issued a warning to its customers or disclosed the flaw to new buyers. For months Sun told customers seeking a repair that they must sign a legal agreement promising to keep it secret. Many still don't dare speak out. Even now Sun hasn't published on its main Web site an official explanation of the bug. Sun says it has finally figured out what's wrong. It is an odd problem involving stray cosmic rays and memory chips in the flagship Enterprise server line, whose models are priced at $50,000 to more than $1 million. Yet Sun won't fix all of the servers it has sold; instead it will make repairs when it deems them necessary." Craig