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To: Thomas C. Donald who wrote (11210)	12/6/1998 12:04:00 PM
From: unclewest	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

thomas, you now claim that you have not seen anything regarding compaq using rambus rdram in their servers.!!?? let me refresh your memory son. compaq.com Industry News on Memory August 1998 Compaq Pairs Alpha & Rambus DRAM Supply Still Rising Samsung Shows 0.13-Micron Process Compaq Pairs Alpha & Rambus Compaq plans to use Direct Rambus DRAMs in future AlphaServer designs, defying the conventional wisdom that the Rambus architecture is not well suited to multi-gigabyte memory systems. Compaq plans to develop AlphaServer systems that can scale to hundreds of gigabytes of DRDRAM memory while meeting customer reliability requirements. The firm's high-end systems currently use a broad mix of slower memory technologies including FPM, EDO, and 66MHz SDRAM. With Alpha processor-based servers now in the Rambus camp and Intel committed to Rambus for the Merced processor, Rambus appears positioned to compete in the large systems end of the computer industry. Earlier, Intel announced it had tested initial functional DRDRAMs from Toshiba and that LG Semicon and others were nearly finished with their Rambus designs. To date, Rambus has been painted as a small-density solution, albeit with 1.6GB/s bandwidth per channel. Compaq and Dell had issued statements saying they supported Rambus for PC platforms in '99. An In-Stat analyst noted that Rambus is gaining at the low end with the PC, and now at the high end, which means it will probably do well in the middle too. Eckhard Pfeiffer, Compaq president and CEO, noted that Alpha gives Compaq a leadership 64-bit architecture at least two years ahead of Intel's Merced which will also be an integral part of Compaq's product portfolio.