Intel, The Competition And RDRAM

[LavrentiBeria]

Comrades,

Trying to stay abreast of the latest developments respecting RDRAM, I note interesting articles and threads here, some contradictory, on whether Intel plans abjectly to turn its back on this memory technology. One interview by Anandtech with a critical figure at Intel has them never looking back yet other reports have the party in question denying these statements. Precisely where are things at this point with Intel; is someone else, SiS perhaps, likely to pick up the ball and run with it?

Yours in the joy of socialist labor,

LavrentiBeria

 

[Rainsford]

Intel seems to be developing it's new chipset technologies with DDR memory (dual channel and so on). I have heard nothing about any new RDRAM chipsets (although I could have missed something). It does not look very promising for RDRAM from the Intel side of the fence. Now I suppose someone else could develope a new RDRAM solution, but without support from Intel I doubt they will last very long. DDR seems to be where the future is at.

 

[LavrentiBeria]

Comrade Rainsford,

If what you say is true, and it well may be, a very regretable misstep may have been made. Would it not be possible for a another player to appear that could pick up the pieces and not be dependent upon Intel? They hype the product, abandon it and leave users like me guessing as to whether PC 1066 actually will work with the D850EMV2 simply because they don't want to go to the trouble of finding out given their decision to move in another direction. I've never purchased anything but Intel boards but that could change if they utterly walk on RDRAM. Comrade Stalin feels the same way..

LavrentiBeria

 

[Iron Woode]

Don't forget that RamBus is having serious legal problems and its value as a company is shrinking. This situation can make other companies that deal with them nervous.

I feel that Intel is keeping its options open for now.

 

[Twinhead]

Intel has decided to dump RDRAM for their future chipset. Read this.