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To: Elmer who wrote (115135)	10/29/2000 5:36:43 PM
From: Tony Viola	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Elmer, >Tony I think you're being very unfair to the engineers who worked on RamBus for Intel, I know, I was involved. Recent reports in the press have blamed management for ignoring the engineers and I have no cause to disagree. I heard from a very good inside source (not Intel but another heavyweight that was seriously looking at Rambus, and rejected it) that Intel didn't do a good job at all evaluating Rambus. I also predicted on these threads at least 2 years ago that the very high frequency design requirements could easily be blown, if the best transmission line, impedance matching techniques were not used. I hate to say I told you so, but they did not heed that warning. Then again, they didn't ask me. What they did do was a poor job. Just look at the recalls and cancelled projects. Bottom line, though, is that there was no need to risk Intel's reputation on a far out (at the time) electrical interface on something like the RAM in a PC. Your RAM is just not that much in the critical path of a PC's performance. TV