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

To: Rosemary who wrote (18814)	4/16/1999 10:46:00 PM
From: Glenn Norman	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Yo_Ms.Rosemary and Zeev.....................Please forgive me for jumping in right here, but you are asking a question that is right down my alley, as I do systems installation and integration on multi processor cluster groups. I was with Digital (DEC) up until the compaq buy out, and I have now gone into semi-retirement (Consulting). It is EXTREMELY difficult to get multi-processor units running at very high clock speeds because of MEMORY timing and bit fetches on leading or trailing edges of bus clock. It would take days for me to explain all of the intricacies, but suffice it to say that at the current time there is no RAMBUS to be used in the near future for most servers and all multi-processor and/or clustered-multiprocessor gangs (server banks). Servers also use what is known as bit or parity error checking memory (known as ECC memory) which is not currently possible with Rambus memory. Rambus has extra bit memory right now but it is going to require a special chipset (NOT CAMINO),and even with a special chipset it will not work with multi-processor systems. Rambus will be used initially in very high performance high-end SINGLE processor workstations and highend desk top machines. When Intel first looked into high end systems in 1993 it was for a video server system that corporations could run over their networks for conferencing. This was initially in conjuntion with Microsofts then NEW OS--WINDOWS NT. I was part of the initial development of this effort and we knew very quick that we had a really insurmountable bandwidth-processor capacity-memory intensive tiger by the tail and RAMBUS WAS THE COMPANY chosen to develop the memory for the Intel video conferencing effort--and that is how it all started for me and Intels first efforts into the high end AFFORDABLE corporate video conferencing software and hardware systems. Salude and good trading to you and all the "BUSSERS" - Norman!

To: Rosemary who wrote (18814)	4/17/1999 1:32:00 AM
From: Tenchusatsu	Respond to of 93625

<My question: 840? They don't mention RMBS.> I forgot whether the 840 chipset refered to Camino or Carmel, but I do know that both of those chipsets support RDRAM. If I recall correctly, Camino is the next desktop chipset and supports up to two processors and one RDRAM channel. Carmel is the next server chipset and supports two processors at 133 MHz system bus or four processors at 100 MHz system bus. Carmel also features two RDRAM channels for double the memory bandwidth. Don't quote me on this, though. Tenchusatsu