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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (16775)	10/30/2000 4:54:18 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 275872

I hate to point out the obvious, Mr. glass house preacher man, but MU is hardly the only company resisting the scambus operation these days. Intel roadmap shows little Rambus support in 2001 ebnews.com A confidential road map obtained by EBN shows Intel Corp. dropping Direct Rambus DRAM from every computing platform but high-end workstations by mid-2001. This would appear to bear out recent comments by Intel president Craig Barrett that the exclusive deal to support the memory interface was “a mistake.” According to the document, Intel will phase out the slow-selling Direct RDRAM-enabled 820 chipset in the first quarter of next year, while the yet-to-be-introduced Intel 850 chipset will be dropped in the middle of the third quarter. At that time, Intel's sole remaining Rambus chipset will be an enhanced 850 device code-named Tehama-E, which the company is rolling out for workstations and PCs costing more than $2,000. The details of the road map are further evidence that the rupture between Intel and memory-design partner Rambus Inc. has widened, even to the point where Intel is planning to introduce a double-data-rate SDRAM-enabled chipset for desktop PCs. Industry sources said the companies are engaged in negotiations over Intel's demand that a clause barring it from fielding its own DDR chipset until 2003 be stricken from its licensing contract with Rambus. And so on. Looks like Rambus is too good even for Intel now. Too bad, Rambus used to be our friend around here.