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To: richard surckla who wrote (81647)	3/20/2002 7:53:52 AM
From: cordob	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

P.S. Nobody get the boot from SI by calling someone a moron. Richard I seem to have missed something. Has CB been removed permanently? I though he was on holiday:) Cheers Cor

To: richard surckla who wrote (81647)	3/20/2002 9:04:43 AM
From: Dan3	Respond to of 93625

Samsung is now shipping DDR400, which has the same bandwidth in one channel as two channels of Rambus - and lower latency. It's often forgotten that the RDRAM boards are more expensive because they have two memory channels instead of one, and that Intel is replacing its expensive dual-channel Rambus motherboard with a dual-channel DDR motherboard. The slowest dual DDR motherboard will have 100% higher bandwidth than a dual RDRAM motherboard (even DDR266 vs. PC1066 Rambus has double the bandwidth 266x8x2 vs. 533x2x2) - and lower latency. With DDR333 (now shipping in motherboards) it's more than 100% faster per channel, and DDR400 is coming on line... Rambus is expensive to build, expensive to buy, has high latency (terrible as chip speeds increase), and makes motherboards expensive to make. Its error prone bus cannot support more than two RIMMs per channel, drastically limiting expansion possibilities. Intel has written Rambus out of its future - and its easy to understand why.

To: richard surckla who wrote (81647)	3/21/2002 10:32:44 AM
From: Jdaasoc	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

richard: recent news; any hope that you can see. Micron loses motion to dismiss Rambus claims By Jack Robertson EBN (03/20/02, 01:15:51 PM EST) Federal Judge Roderick McKelvie of the Wilmington, Del., District Court has denied the motion of Micron Technology for a summary judgment that the DRAM maker hadn't infringed Rambus Inc., a Micron spokesman confirmed Wednesday. The ruling was made late last month. Micron was hoping to get a similar ruling that Infineon Technology AG got in a separate case last year in Richmond, Va., federal court that absolved the German chip maker from violating any Rambus synchronous memory patents. The judge also deferred the start of Micron's trial against Rambus on the SDRAM patent claims until after a Federal Appeals court rules later this year on a Rambus appeal. Rambus filed the appeal of a jury verdict of fraud in the separate patent suit between Rambus and Infineon. The Micron case in the Wilmington, Dec., court this week was also reassigned to a new judge, Sue Robinson, according to a docket entry. No reason was given for the change in jurists.