Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Dave B who wrote (73237)	5/18/2001 9:27:09 PM
From: SBHX	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Dave, The hardware is actually way ahead of the application and has been for a couple of gens. Outside of several niche applications like video editing and less-sophisticated DVD piracy shops in HongKong, noone really needs the fast streaming apps. Trying to push for fast streaming bursting advantage of faster memory by association with 1Mbit/s (or 384kbps) broadband internet is like someone who already has a 10" wide pipe into a maple tree dripping syrup, and asking him to get a 20" wide one to get more syrup. You just won't eat more pancakes unless you grow more trees. Meanwhile, few people realize that you can get faster performance by simply defragmenting the hard disk or getting more memory to defer windows from swapping to disk further (eventually it will swap as the resources leak, but 768MB does get you through about 4 days before you need to reboot) I actually think that while moore's law is not dead, the need for it has stalled until a true killer app shows up, that could happen next month or 5 years from now. Who knows when? SbH