Silicon Investor (SI) -- The First Internet Community

STOCKTALK

We've detected that you're using an ad content blocking browser plug-in or feature. Ads provide a critical source of revenue to the continued operation of Silicon Investor. We ask that you disable ad blocking while on Silicon Investor in the best interests of our community. If you are not using an ad blocker but are still receiving this message, make sure your browser's tracking protection is set to the 'standard' level.

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

To: Don Green who wrote (21426)	6/2/1999 1:46:00 AM
From: kapkan4u	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

From the REGISTER. theregister.co.uk Intel confirms yields low on Direct Rambus An Intel representative on its stand at the Computex trade fair has confirmed that quantities of Direct Rambus memory will not appear until year end. Intel is showing a number of RIMMs from manufacturers and module manufacturers including LG, Toshiba, Samsung, Memory Corporation and Apacer, an Acer subsidiary. "Yields are low," the representative said. "We don't expect shipments to be in any quantity until September, and they will rise towards the end of the year." Meanwhile, IBM said yesterday that it was not going to support Direct Rambus in its machines. Intel is now likely to adopt PC-133 as a short term measure, despite its repeated denials it would do so from the beginning of this year

To: Don Green who wrote (21426)	6/2/1999 2:32:00 AM
From: CIMA	Respond to of 93625

Rambus getting cold shoulder By Michael Kanellos Staff Writer, CNET News.com June 1, 1999, 7:05 p.m. PT TAIPEI, Taiwan--Although Intel is putting its weight behind Rambus, cost and other obstacles mean several key companies are lukewarm about the memory technology. AMD's K7 processor, which rolls out later this month, will not likely be matched with Rambus memory in computers until next year, said Alan Au, AMD's director of sales for greater China. Instead, the K7 will likely be matched with plain 100-Mhz DRAM, then the speedier 133-MHz DRAM, then other, faster versions of that lineage. In any event, the calendar seems to ensure that the initial flotilla of K7 machines won't use Rambus. The K7 is expected at the end of the month, the same time K7-based computers might also arrive. But the chipsets on the market right now, which serve as the interface between the processor and main memory, do not yet speak the language of Rambus. Although Rambus has been virtually anointed as the standard bearer for the future of computer memory, the company has been saddled with product delays and technical glitches in 1999, which in turn have delayed the debut of Rambus-based PCs from the middle of the year to the end of the third quarter. But even more critical, the company may start to feel the squeeze of cheaper alternatives and the industry's obsession with keeping desktop prices as low as possible. Umax chairman Frank Huang and Acer president Simon Lin shared similar skeptical feelings. Right now, Rambus memory costs about $45 more per chip than standard 64MB memory, which considerably hikes the price of a PC, said Lin.