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To: REH who wrote (9559)	11/11/1998 9:25:00 PM
From: MileHigh	Respond to of 93625

REH, Anectdotal information- Rambus' booth is right next to Intel's at COMDEX <g> MileHigh

To: REH who wrote (9559)	11/12/1998 6:34:00 AM
From: Tom Gebing	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Direct Rambus Samples Shipping Now crn.com By Amber Howle Irvine, Calif. 7:58 PM EST Wed., Nov. 11, 1998 .............. Resellers should expect to see systems containing Direct Rambus memory by the middle of next year. In the last two weeks, a few memory vendors have said they have made progress on their Direct Rambus efforts. Some have started in-house testing, while at least one is already shipping samples to PC OEMs. Toshiba America Electronic Components Inc., Irvine, Calif., started shipping sample Direct Rambus RIMM modules to Dell Computer Corp., Round Rock, Texas, this week with help from Kingston Technology Co., Fountain Valley, Calif. Toshiba and Kingston formed a manufacturing partnership recently to deliver Toshiba's Rambus RIMMs to PC OEMs planning to release systems using the new memory architecture next year. "[Kingston] is also building prototypes for semiconductor OEMs," said Al Soni, vice president and general manager of services at Kingston. "At this point, it is in the initial engineering phase." Also on Monday, Siemens Corp.'s Semiconductor Group, Cupertino, Calif., claimed it has the first functional 72 Mbit Direct Rambus DRAM silicon. The company said the chip is the industry's smallest 72 Mbit Direct RDRAM part, which can also be used for 64 Mbits. Siemens officials said the chips are being tested now, with engineering samples expected to ship to PC OEMs by the end of the year. Last week, Samsung Semiconductor Inc., San Jose, Calif., claimed it was the world's first to develop a 144 Mbit Rambus DRAM chip and 144 Mbyte Rambus In-line Memory Module. The chip is twice as fast as the 72 Mbit chip Samsung released in July and can process data up to 1.6 Gbytes per second, making it the world's fastest memory product to date. "We consider this latest announcement the most important for the Rambus project," said Avo Kanadjian, vice president of memory marketing for Samsung. He said that modules based on 128 Mbytes, like Samsung's latest, allow 16 to 256 Mbyte capacities in increments of 16 Mbytes. Kanadjian said that Samsung plans to ship samples to OEMs soon. Vendors and analysts have said that VARs can expect to get their hands on Direct Rambus memory during the second half of next year. Research data from Semico Research Corp., Phoenix predicts that Direct Rambus memory will capture about 12 percent of the market by the year 2000, and 20 percent by the year 2001. The new memory architecture was developed by Rambus Inc., Mountain View, Calif., in close conjunction with Intel Corp., Santa Clara, Calif.