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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: unclewest who wrote (12708)	1/9/1999 6:24:00 PM
From: Richard Ruscio	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

NGIO - next gen I/O - is Intel's attempt to get to a more mainframe-like way to handle storage and network I/O. Look at it this way. Each page on SI is about 8K (except for some of the longer winded posts :-). To get the page pushed to the browser, SI's machines have to hit a database (on disk storage) to get the text, pull other stuff including formating info(from disk storage), write the whole thing out into a more or less temporary file (on disk storage), get a file spec back so that a URL can be constructed, pass that file spec/URL to the browser, which then pulls the file (from disk storage) through memory (our boy RMBS plays here a bit), and pushes it out via the network connection. The storage devices can be massively buffered - multi megabyte and gigabyte caches aren't unusual to want here. The more the merrier. Those caches take memory, and the better the bandwidth to that memory, the more money we all make. Network devices - Ethernet cards, for example - are usefully buffered to keep load off of the CPU (interrupt handling stuff) and load off the device itself. I don't know of any special need for massive amounts of memory here. The network the device is connected to - Ethernet or whatever - is usually the bottleneck. Or, for the non-technical, NGIO has nothing much to do with RMBS, except make it a bit better investment. Good trading. rr