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To: Joe NYC who wrote (73806)	3/6/2002 11:36:23 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 275872

Jozef, let's examine your timeline. 5/9/2000 - Intel says DDR is not on the roadmap. 11/17/2000 - Doubts come up about the future of RDRAM. 1/19/2001 - Intel previews Brookdale, and mentions DDR. If you look at the quote you linked to, you'll see that Burns never denied SDRAM being on the roadmap. He only said that his roadmap did not include DDR. Therefore, what's wrong with the explanation that, between the months of May and January of the following year, it suddenly dawned on Intel management that RDRAM wouldn't hit the levels of commodity pricing needed to open an entryway into the mainstream market for Pentium 4, and yet, still a higher performance technology was needed to maintain a competitive position? Upon such a realization, management would have had Burns revise his roadmap to include DDR, at which point he would have had to scramble together a team to add DDR support to the early i845 design in time to demo it by January. I don't mean to come up with wild theories and speculations, but you can't ignore this possibility, given the time difference between Intel's first claim, and the reality 8 months later. It's not a lie if they really didn't have DDR on the roadmap, and then added it later when it became a good business decision to do so. Anything could have happened during the time between the two articles. A lie would have only been one explanation - and you know it. wbmw

To: Joe NYC who wrote (73806)	3/7/2002 1:36:42 AM
From: dale_laroy	Respond to of 275872

>Your assertion was that: I don't think there was anything to hide. I think Intel announced long before the i845 with DDR memory was launched that they wanted to do a DDR chipset, Which is not the case. Long before i845 was launched, Intel was saying Rambus was the only memory type supported, while they were secretly working on SDR and DDR chipsets.< The two are not mutually exclusive. If I stated that long before man was traveling around the world in jet aircraft he was traveling around the world in ships, this would not make the statement that long before man was traveling around the world in jet aircraft he was traveling around the world in propeller driven aircraft false.