To: NightOwl who wrote (75559 ) 7/11/2001 8:01:57 AM From: gnuman Read Replies (1) | Respond to Owl, I asked: Can you tell us which of these "Desk Top segments" is best served by the RMBS platform as opposed to the DDR platform? From the customer's perspective, i.e., forgetting INTC's marketing needs, I don't see it. If the quote from INTC is both accurate and honest, customers will be voting with their feet and departing the Bus. Similarly on the i4 you say: If it lowers DRDRAM production costs while providing better performance than DDR, why can't you see a position for that solution? And we still don't know what the new 4i chipset look's like. There may be some surprises. We can say that 4i RDRAM modules will require chipset support, and their release in 2002 will be accompanied by the release of Intel's second RDRAM chipset for the Pentium 4. anandtech.com As to the segmentation thing we will have to agree to disagree in our respective viewpoints. If I were AMD or INTC I could accept your categories of "segmentation" in general. But as a consumer I will always "see" far fewer "segments" than their marketing folks would try to make me accept. From my perspective, a "segment" is simply a mfg's attempt to match his product line up to the desires of large numbers of consumers.
