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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: dumbmoney who wrote (81818)	4/10/2002 9:32:09 AM
From: h0db	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

I am sure that Intel was effusive in its new love for Rambus, but let's stick to the x86 architecture and the current decade. The only chipset that could have remotely been called a "server" chipset is/was the i860 for Xeon. Not exactly competition for ServerWorks is it? In fact, even at the height of Intel's lover, during the 1999 IDF, Intel maintained that Server chipset--such as the E7500 and the SeverWorks "GrandChampion"--would use 100Mhz DDR. And the Do. And they shall.... Finally, to somehow claim that the DEC EV-7/8 is some kind of Intel design is just passing weird (or dumb). Since each CPU has an integrated RDRAM controller, each CPU can have up to 2GB of memory all to itself--kind of like AMD's Hammer-- assuming that they are using a repeater or very dense RIMMs. With the E7 design, RDRAM is almost acting as L3 or L4 cache--avoiding cache competition on a multi-CPU platform. But Intel's designs--engineering or otherwise--had nothing to do with it.