Intel unties knots with Rambus

[superbaby]

http://www0.mercurycenter.com/partners/distribution/docs/rambus110100.htm

Very interesting article, looks like we'll finally be free of Rambus by the end of next year. It's funny how Rambus' CEO says that "at one point we depended on Intel" - as if they don't depend on them now? What other major platform besides the PS2 uses Rambus? Damn I hope their stock plummets, I hate that company.

Anyone notice a little typo on that article - the author says DDR SDRAM is "digital data rate". Sigh... that doesn't even make any sense? Why the heck would digital data would have any kind of rate? Someone should e-mail the author and tell them DDR is Double Data Rate.

Thank goodness that it's not a technical article... I guess the money pushers can get away with this kinda stuff.

 

[whizler]

I thought some Rambus memory technology was going to be used in various consoles.

 

[Howard]

<< What other major platform besides the PS2 uses Rambus? >>



Also, I believe the N64 had a little.

 

[Czar]

This shows how MUCH FUCKING IDIOTS those rambus bastards are.


<< ``At one time, our whole future depended on Intel,'' said Gary Harmon, Rambus' chief financial officer. ``Now we have 100 patents that we are licensing.''

Harmon said that Rambus is still interested in making its memory technology a standard in PCs. ``But even if that is slower than expected, we are now on our way to getting a royalty on every DRAM.''

``My bet is that their IP is going to hold up,'' said Mark Edelstone, a Morgan Stanley Dean Witter analyst. >>


They say this like its a good thing, gawwwwwwwwdd I HATE RAMBUS WITH PASSION

 

[superbaby]

N64 has Rambus? What?? I want some of whatever you are smoking!

And yeah Czar I agree completely, they make holding patents and royalties seem like it's a good thing. For who? Probably just him. Stakeholders would have to be insane to agree that strategy is the way to earn revenues. Rambus just pisses me offfffff :|

You pay triple the price for little, less or negligible performance increase... Rambus supporters go to HELLL :|

 

[optoman]

The N64 does have rambus in it. I am almost 100% sure it does. Something like 4MB of it.

 

[Erasmus-X]

<< What other major platform besides the PS2 uses Rambus? >>



Yes, the N64 does use 4MB of Rambus memory. This is upgraded to 8MB with the expansion pack that some of its games require.

 

[superbaby]

Argghh why is Rambus in game consoles =(

Couldn't they have used standard SDRAM memory?? I find it highly unlikely that the N64 *requires* the bandwidth specs that Rambus has, especially for saving and loading games. Why why why! Damn I just want to see Rambus go down. I guess I'm biased...

 

[rmblam]

As they manufacture RDRAM modules more will not bin at 400mhz than those that will. I doubt the manufacturers are tossing the majority in the garbage. My guess is they sell them off cheap for the consoles. Regardless, when short traces (soldered onto the board) are used RDRAM is good for consoles which benefit from it's high bandwidth.

Czar, how can you get away with the potty mouth? lol. Filter must not recognize caps?