Don't know if this was already posted or not... So I apologize in advance if this is a repost...
"Intel to say bye-bye to Rambus >> 04:30 PM - Marcus Yam
Intel today at its Developer Forum did the official about-face on Rambus. It was revealed that in the second half of this year, Intel will be dropping its final support for RDRAM products in favor of using DDR memory instead--workstation and server chipsets included. Here's more from the EBN top story:
An Intel workstation roadmap secured by EBN showed a Placer chipset with DDR SDRAMs for dual processor Xeon workstations, and a Granite Bay DDR chipset for uniprocessor Xeon workstations. They will replace the Intel 860 workstationchipset using RDRAM and Intel 850 with RDRAM.
The new Prestonia Xeon processor for servers introduced in January already uses DDR memory, supported either by Intel's own E7500 Plumas chipset or a third party vendor chipset from ServerWorks, Santa Clara, Calif.
When the new workstation DDR chipsets arrive, it will mark the end of a long and torturous episode when Intel tried to mandate Direct Rambus as the next generation memory for the PC and workstation markets. A spokeswoman for Rambus Inc. said she couldn't comment on new Intel workstation chipsets supporting DDR, and referred all questions to Intel."
"Intel to say bye-bye to Rambus >> 04:30 PM - Marcus Yam
Intel today at its Developer Forum did the official about-face on Rambus. It was revealed that in the second half of this year, Intel will be dropping its final support for RDRAM products in favor of using DDR memory instead--workstation and server chipsets included. Here's more from the EBN top story:
An Intel workstation roadmap secured by EBN showed a Placer chipset with DDR SDRAMs for dual processor Xeon workstations, and a Granite Bay DDR chipset for uniprocessor Xeon workstations. They will replace the Intel 860 workstationchipset using RDRAM and Intel 850 with RDRAM.
The new Prestonia Xeon processor for servers introduced in January already uses DDR memory, supported either by Intel's own E7500 Plumas chipset or a third party vendor chipset from ServerWorks, Santa Clara, Calif.
When the new workstation DDR chipsets arrive, it will mark the end of a long and torturous episode when Intel tried to mandate Direct Rambus as the next generation memory for the PC and workstation markets. A spokeswoman for Rambus Inc. said she couldn't comment on new Intel workstation chipsets supporting DDR, and referred all questions to Intel."
