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To: TigerPaw who wrote (5598)	7/10/1998 7:35:00 PM
From: Robert Grist	Respond to of 93625

It's not a down side. Rambus has learned to use Antenna theory on Printed circuit boards and within semiconducters. ..As you posted, the problem of how do you charge and discharge billions of capacitors very very quickly is a bitch. Designing with "Standing Waves" in mind cannot be bypassed, no matter what the technology. Rambus has the experience, the got-it-dones and the real-world solution to the problem.

To: TigerPaw who wrote (5598)	7/11/1998 5:58:00 PM
From: Estephen	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

TigerPaw, apparently there is some disagreement with the assertion that rambus is not suitable for servers ----- Compaq and Rambus seem to think servers are a good application for rambus dram. "can scale to hundreds of gigabytes" ? "Monday June 29, 5:59 am Eastern Time Company Press Release Compaq Computer Corporation To Use Direct Rambus Technology in AlphaServer Enterprise Computing Platforms MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. and HOUSTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 29, 1998-- Compaq Plans AlphaServer Enterprise Computing Systems Using Hundreds of Gigabytes of Memory Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS - news) and Compaq Computer Corporation [NYSE:CPQ - news] today announced that Compaq has taken a license for Direct Rambus technology to create high performance, cost-effective large memory subsystems for future generation AlphaServer enterprise computing platforms. ''Direct Rambus technology provides the memory bandwidth needed for future AlphaServer enterprise computing systems,'' said Jesse Lipcon, vice president of the UNIX and OpenVMS AlphaServers Division at Compaq. ''Using Direct Rambus technology, Compaq will develop future AlphaServer systems which can scale to hundreds of gigabytes of memory while meeting the reliability requirements our customers demand. Further, with major DRAM vendors supporting Direct Rambus technology, customers will benefit from the economies of a wide "source of supply.'' biz.yahoo.com "Rambus has been painted as a small-density solution, albeit with 1.6-Gbyte/s bandwidth per channel. DRAM memory managers at several companies have suggested that the Rambus technology would top out at 256-Mbytes, and that SDRAMs with double-data-rate architectures would do better in the server market than Rambus DRAMs. Subodh Toprani, a Rambus vice president, said "that is a fallacy perpetrated by our competitors." using 256-Mbit DRAMs, which Toprani said will be available in time for some of the server designs now being undertaken, each Rambus channel can support 1-Gbyte of memory. A 4-way processor system could support a total memory of 16 Gbytes by putting four channels on each of the four processors, without the use of buffers eet.com