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To: D.B. Cooper who wrote (4424)	10/30/2001 10:05:55 PM
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invest in this one at your own risk. Actually made a lot trading RMBS. I haven't touched it for a while. Tuesday October 30 09:00 PM EST Rambus-P4 chipset meets another maker By Michael Kanellos CNET News.com Soon, Intel won't be the only company with a Rambus chipset for Pentium 4 PCs. More resources from CNET: • Free Real-Time Stock Quotes • Test Your Bandwidth • Get certified with SmartPlanet • Listen Live to CNET Radio CNET Newsletters: News.com Daily Dispatch News.Context (weekly) News.com Investor (Daily) More Newsletters (CNet/ZDNet Privacy Policy) News.com Video: • SGI supercomputers serve military Sources said Tuesday that Taiwan's Silicon Integrated Systems will come out with a chipset that allows PC makers to connect Pentium 4 processors with Rambus-based memory. The advent of a second manufacturer could give a boost to controversial chip designer Rambus by increasing the availability of such chipsets and thus helping lower the price of building computers with Rambus memory. Until September, expensive Rambus-based memory was the only RAM that could be used with Pentium 4s. A lower-cost alternative has since given Rambus a run for its money. An SIS representative wrote in an e-mail Tuesday that SIS has a plan to "support Rambus" but declined to comment further or discuss specific product plans. SIS has already announced plans to come out with a chipset that connects Pentium 4s to less expensive, non-Rambus memory. The existence of a Rambus chipset deal was reported in August, but the identity of the manufacturer was unknown. If the processor is the master inside a computer, the chipset is the butler, endlessly shuttling data and commands between the processor and memory. Although Rambus-based memory, or RDRAM, provides a performance boost, it is also more expensive than regular memory. A 128MB module of RDRAM sells for $37. By contrast, a 128MB module of SDRAM, the most common form of memory used in PCs today, costs $4. And a 128MB module of DDR DRAM, a high-speed version of SDRAM, sells for $12 to $24. Because of the cost associated with RDRAM and other factors, PC makers have flocked to Intel's 845 chipset since it was introduced in September. The chipset, which allows PC makers to connect Pentium 4s to standard memory is on track to become one of Intel's most popular chipsets ever, according to analysts. Gateway, for instance, said that the 845 allowed the company to cut about $100 off the price of its Pentium 4 PCs.