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

To: Alan Hume who wrote (20276)	5/13/1999 2:41:00 PM
From: Ian Anderson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Alan, There is nothing to prevent a chipset manufacturer from supporting 4 or even 8 Rambus channels on their memory controller. The pincount would not be prohibitive. One might expect a sever chipset to have this support. As for Merced, I think it is a dead product. The delays in shipping it will mean that the Pentium III will be running at a higher clock speed by the time Merced is available. Also I think Merced will be like the P6, in that it will run 32 bit (i.e. current) applications, slower than existing processors, and only show a performance improvement when the apps are recompiled (i.e. never in it's lifetime) Intel might get the software infrastucture ready by the time we get to the Merced III. Ian