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To: unclewest who wrote (19616)	5/4/1999 2:19:00 PM
From: gcrieff	Respond to of 93625

heres some reading on rambus froma micron subsidiary Last October, Intel invested $500 million into our parent company, Micron Technology, in order to support its development and supply of next generation memory products. This investment is predicted to increase growth in the PC industry by accelerating the adoption of Direct RDRAM a.k.a. Rambus, a high-speed memory interface technology. Which leads many of us to ask, "What's Rambus?" For all you technical savvy customers out there, Rambus is a general- purpose, high-performance, packet-oriented dynamic random access memory with a current density of 64Mb & 128Mb (256Mb and 1Gb chips in the future). What's so special about Rambus? It can run at clock speeds of up to 400 MHz which by far surpasses the current PC100 memory clock speeds. The Rambus module will look similar to a DIMM module, but may we say that this is a revolutionary step in functionality. It's something so different than what we've seen before, it's far from the evolutionary step of Fast Page Mode > EDO > SDRAM. This RDRAM chip is mounted onto a RIMM (Rambus Inline Memory Module) which will be inserted into a motherboard. At this current point in time, Intel is developing a compatible chipset. Other characteristics of Rambus include a lower voltage of 2.5V rather than the current standard 3.3V of SDRAM. The Rambus Channel (which transfers data between the memory controller and the memory) has an effective data transfer rate of 800 MHz rather than the 100 MHz data transfer rate of PC100 memory. Since the exchange of information between the CPU and the memory will be much faster with Rambus, there will be a recognizable performance boost. But how much of a boost remains to be seen when engineering samples are expected to be out by Q399. Interested in what our engineers have to say about Rambus including data sheets? Visit micron.com. regards coving