To: Dave B who wrote (73289 ) 5/20/2001 4:09:21 AM From: Bilow Read Replies (1) | Respond to Hi all; A week of Dave B postings, from 2 years ago... I thought I'd go back through the thread and see what Dave B had to say just before the Camino fiasco. If he's really well connected to the industry, I figured he'd have given us advance warning. So let's see what Dave B posted during the week before that fatal day in late September 1999:Those mobo manufacturers will be uncompetitive then, because the pictures of the VC820 board that Intel is selling shows 3 RIMM sockets in the photo. #reply-11334439Nope, sorry, gotapex reversed the results of their first review (after they received new drivers) and added that the 820 will be a winner. #reply-11332267That is what Intel is going to begin doing on Monday -- present benchmarks that differentiate their systems. #reply-11327712 I have a friend who designs ASICs at one of the hard drive companies. He tells me that they're looking at using RDRAM in their hard drives as it combines the streaming performance with the granularity (HDD caches are a little smaller than the memory used in video games, I think). I have no idea if or when it would happen. #reply-11313885The i820 product will be a success, I have absolutely no doubt. -- from the latest gotapex review of Camino. #reply-11309807You're perspiring -- I can tell it from here. I think the gotapex article has you worried. You're sounding like the average bear now ("20% of it's current price?" "Intel is going to punish Rambus?" And the worst was "hope for much more death and destruction next time" -- that was pathetic). You'd better cover your positions now while you have time, because we now have our first hint that the benchmarks are going to look just fine. Do it now before they really start tumbling out and everyone figures out that this Rambus stuff really works and wants in on it. #reply-11309778 also #reply-11308632Forget Intel for a second, one of the things that has impressed me about Rambus has been the ability to get the momentum rolling for their products. They've managed to work with some of the most advanced engineering companies in the world to get them to use their solution (which is why I find the "Rambus snookered everyone" argument rather silly). And following the winning of the big deals, they've worked hard to keep their customers (Intel, Sony, etc.) satisfied. #reply-11288679If we thought the last couple of weeks were bad with the benchmark "news", I'll bet it won't be anything compared to the noise they'll make beginning the 27th. #reply-11287481 Yes, I thought of that after it was too late to change the slide. It's really only 1 technology (DDR) that they're not supporting out of a universe of billions of technologies that they don't support. #reply-11287182As for sync DRAM [i.e. next-generation SDRAM, now called DDR SDRAM] , we might--with substantial changes to the module, and if we shifted to another voltage interface and changed the way the motherboard is laid out--we might be able to get a 200MHz chip to work, although that's questionable," said Mr. Lenehan. #reply-11266390
