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To: Paul Engel who wrote (68966)	11/22/1998 8:50:00 PM
From: MileHigh	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, The transition to RDRAM seems to be proceeding nicely. Do you see any potential road blocks coming? Perhaps the heat issue? Production capacity? Just curious. Regards, MileHigh

To: Paul Engel who wrote (68966)	11/23/1998 2:26:00 AM
From: Jeff Fox	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, re:"WAS the Camino Chip Set being used." Not too surprising. In fact I'd bet that Camino silicon is the only system silicon that can run RD ram today! Intel has had an RD interface running on a test chip for over six months, but that chip can run a system. There is no reason to believe that there exist any other RD chipset interface on the planet. I am also awed by Intel's performance on schedule: The thing we want to make clear today is that we've hit all of the milestones that we discussed [two years ago]," said Peter MacWilliams, an Intel fellow and the company's director of platform architecture, in an interview at Comdex/Fall '98 last week. "We said we'd have a working PC platform by the end of 1998, and we have that today. RD ram program has entailed brand new and very, very complex with high electrical engineering for the chipset, ram chips, sockets, connectors, voltage supplies and PCBs. Intel has orchestrated this massive program across several of its own divisions, all major ram suppliers, and of course Rambus Inc. You can bet that several were less than anxious to play at the Intel accelerated schedule rate. It is phenomenal that this demonstration is possible of all parts working on a schedule announced two years ago. Jeff

To: Paul Engel who wrote (68966)	4/1/2001 9:39:58 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Paul, Looks like some Intel managers had their heads severely buried in the sand in November, 1998: Intel anticipates that Rambus-enabled systems will dominate the $1,200-to-$3,500 PC market in 2000, and said it has also identified early interest among OEMs looking to push the technology into the price-sensitive sub-$1,000 territory. Here is what someone else wrote the same week: I still haven't figured out why anybody cares about RDRAM on the motherboard. I wish that someone could explain the theory behind it's benefits. Typically, a microprocessor bursts data in and out 32 bytes at a time. Attaching RDRAM to a microprocessor is like using a train to deliver the family groceries two blocks away. It starts slowly, and most of it's capacity is never used. Message 6564215 Scumbria