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To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (4621)	6/15/1998 10:43:00 PM
From: froland	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Toshiba Ships 800-MHz Rambus Dynamic RAMs (06/15/98; 1:12 p.m. ET) By Will Wade, Semiconductor Business News Toshiba America Electronic Components in Irvine, Calif., Monday announced it has shipped functioning direct Rambus dynamic RAM (RDRAM) silicon that runs at 800 MHz. The company said this would make its chips the first such devices to operate at that speed. Its samples are now undergoing system testing and chip set validation. "Rambus, Inc., has confirmed that our 72-Mb RDRAM devices were the first to complete functional tests," said Jamie Stitt, manager of DRAM marketing at Toshiba. He added the next-generation memory samples performed read/write operations, initialization procedures, and power management operations, and in some cases moved data at speeds exceeding 2 gigabytes per second. This surpasses the 1.6-Gb-per-second rate that Rambus has targeted for its initial high-speed memory designs. "With plenty of margin at such an early stage, we're confident we can ramp production to meet the industry's needs in 1999," Stitt said. RDRAM chips are expected to see deployment in computer systems by late next year, and many analysts predict the technology may assume a dominant role in the industry by 2000 or 2001. Toshiba (company profile) said Monday it expects to sample RDRAM chips to PC original equipment manufacturers (OEMs) by September, with mass production slated for the first quarter of 1999. Pricing has not yet been established. Although several memory companies are working to develop alternate next-generation DRAM technology, including double data rate DRAM and SLDRAM, this announcement may indicate the Rambus interface has taken another step forward in the race to dominate the PC main memory segment. A popular contender, SLDRAM is generally seen as running behind Rambus in this race, and will have a difficult time establishing itself if the chips are not available when PC OEMs begin incorporating RDRAM into their designs. Another major factor indicating RDRAM's potential for wide use is Intel's decision to adopt the technology. The microprocessor giant is currently developing chip sets that incorporate the RDRAM interface, and has previously announced plans to ship the key-enabling silicon by the end of next year. froland