To: Bilow who wrote (75896 ) 7/18/2001 5:38:47 AM From: techreports Read Replies (2) | Respond to What Samsung was doing then, and is doing now, is trying to get people to use RDRAM by suggesting that it's going to become popular. Since you don't know who to believe, you really have no idea whether to believe me or to believe Samsung. You know for a fact that I don't give a fig about your investment, but do you really think Samsung cares either, LOL? Hey, people only suspect that I'm paid to bash this company, but there is absolutely no denying that Samsung will make more money if RDRAM ramps than they will if it dies. So who's getting paid to tell lies (or shade the truth) here? Sure, there are going to be products that use RDRAM. The problem for RDRAM is that in order to get cheap (and therefore become universally used), it has to be in large production (and therefore universally used). This is a chicken and egg problem Unlike the cost of switching from SDRAM to RDRAM, there is almost no cost to switch the lines from SDRAM to DDR. And DDR's already almost as cheap as SDRAM, this despite the fact that SDRAM has dived in price. Some of those companies are kind of big. Ever hear of Cisco, IBM, or Agere (Lucent), for instance?
