To: Don Green who wrote (60009 ) 11/2/2000 7:31:31 PM From: Don Green Read Replies (3) | Respond to Intel vs. Rambus - EBNews reports that Intel confirmed that they are working on a DDR chipset for their Pentium 4 chips. Intel says that they will release it when DDR becomes mainstream in the memory market. Of course, this might not be until 2003, after the Intel/Rambus contract expires. Paul Otellini's statement is even more confusing: "We will take advantage of DDR, after introducing a single-data-rate SDRAM chipset [for Pentium 4] next year." Makes me wonder what inflection the comma between "DDR" and "after" is supposed to imply. If you notice, the statement is intentionally very ambiguous. In any case, The Register seized the opportunity to quote an ex-Intel employee who says Intel is dumping Rambus. This leads beautifully into OSOpinion's Top 10 reasons that Rambus will sue Intel. Now, let me point out explicitly how Intel could follow through with their statements and still not break the Rambus contract:Rambus contract expires, Intel collects $1 billion in Rambus stock options and promptly sells them. DDR becomes mainstream in the eyes of Intel, and now they release a DDR chipset. Smooth. ugeek.com
