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To: dumbmoney who wrote (62514)	8/17/1998 1:05:00 PM
From: dumbmoney	Respond to of 186894

Intel pushes Direct Rambus into PC servers eetimes.com [...] For its part, Intel said it expects that desktops - not higher-end workstations and servers - will drive the transition to Direct Rambus, starting with its Camino chip set, set to sample soon. Most Merced-class designs probably will use commodity SDRAM memories, said Pete MacWilliams, a fellow at Intel's Architecture Labs. He expressed confidence the Rambus/SDRAM translation ASICs Intel is designing for next year's servers will be available from a variety of manufacturers, though he was not willing to name names. That ASIC would allow companies to use SDRAMs on a Rambus in-line memory module, a guard against tight availability, relatively high prices or relative lack of scalability of the RDRAMs in the early going. "In general, our view is people will use SDRAM in servers and workstations for several years," said MacWilliams. "A lot of servers still use EDO [extended-data-out] memory today. New memory technologies are most needed in the desktop, where there is a small total memory and need for high bandwidth." [...]