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

To: blrmkr who wrote (5557)	7/10/1998 4:37:00 PM
From: TigerPaw	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Is there a publicly available white paper on this? I got my information from a technical junket ... um conference (learn a little science, drink a little beer). There is a downside to the RMBS design. The length and timing of the loop is critical since it acts like a wave-guide for the signal. There is no major problem in producing the ram to this tighter tolerance, after all many parts of the circuit are much more accurate. The problem comes in that the design must plan on exactly how much ram is going to be used. Each loop of rambus contains a certain amount of memory and is tied to exactly one port on the processor. There are only so many rambus ports on the processor (I think Intel will start with 4 ports but I am not sure). If it turns out that the customers really want a lot of memory for a high speed file server or something, they cannot get it with rambus. They can only get the (4) banks of memory unless the processor is redesigned with more ports. I know some servers ship with 4GB memory. I'm sure in time that there will be bigger rambus modules, or more ports to attach them to, or something, but as it sits some of the very high performance applications which would like to use rambus will instead use a more scalable technology.