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To: Ibexx who wrote (2878)	1/28/1998 8:15:00 PM
From: Boplicity	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Consortium Incorporates To Push SLDRAM Technology (01/28/98; 5:04 p.m. EST) By Andrew Maclellan, Electronic Buyers' News Industry think tank the SLDRAM Consortium has incorporated as a non-profit entity, SLDRAM, in an effort to spur the adoption of its next-generation, open architecture DRAM technology. The company, which will be based in Santa Clara, Calif., will coordinate technology development, design service agreements, and patent filings among its 24 members which include leading memory and computer systems manufacturers. Long-time SLDRAM champion and former consortium chairman Farhad Tabrizi will serve as chairman, president, and chief executive of the new company. "As a stand-alone, non-profit corporation, we have an independent charter to pursue new memory chip architectures, total system solutions, design kits, and device verification and compliance support," said Tabrizi, who is also director of worldwide marketing for Hyundai Electronics America's Semiconductor Division. "This is the next logical step in our cost-sharing efforts in establishing next-generation mainstream memory chip technology." SLDRAM proponents have positioned the technology as an alternative to the Rambus DRAM (RDRAM) architecture first developed by Rambus, in Mountain View, Calif. That technology has been embraced by Intel which is pushing it as a successor to the Synchronous DRAM (SDRAM) architecture now serving as the main memory in many PCs. Tabrizi said SLDRAM gives memory suppliers a low-cost option to proprietary, royalty-based Rambus memory, while allowing all vendors to contribute to the development of an open, next-generation DRAM design. "Our goal for main memory is to keep it low cost, especially with the sub-$1,000 PC taking over the market," Tabrizi said. "In a commodity market, nobody is willing to pay more than a 10 percent premium at the time of introduction, and that premium has to be zero within a year of introduction if the technology is going to compete in the market." By incorporating the SLDRAM Consortium, member companies have created a legal body through which to promote the new technology, create a patent pool, and share the cost of chip design and validation. According to Tabrizi, in addition to splitting development costs, existing members must pay $25,000 annually for a seat on the company's board of directors. New members must pay a $50,000 registration fee in addition to annual dues. Non-member companies will be granted access to the SLDRAM recipe for $10,000. Details of an SLDRAM test chip will be released in a paper at next month's International Solid State Circuits Conference in San Francisco. Tabrizi said the first silicon will be ready by the third quarter of 1998 and expects a demonstration of working platforms at this year's fall Comdex. Hyundai plans to introduce a 128-Mbit SLDRAM device in the first half of 1999, although Tabrizi expects widespread industry adoption to occur at the 256-Mbit density sometime in 2000. "Our concept is cost-effective, and we can use existing packaging technology," Tabrizi said. SLDRAM is also expected to incorporate the same next-generation stub series terminated logic interface used by double-data rate SDRAM, the last iteration of SDRAM currently slated for the market.

To: Ibexx who wrote (2878)	1/29/1998 11:08:00 AM
From: MulhollandDrive	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

>>I gues the market makers shook the tree this morning and managed to snatch a few shares from the wimps.<< Ibexx, I noticed on Roger's Short thread that there was a post that indicated that RMBS was on a list of stocks at E- trade that required 50% instead of the usual 35% margin requirement. The downside is that initially I think something like this could cause added volitility as margin calls shake out weaker hands. The plus is that eventually the margin holders should be more "stable". Never use margin....