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Is AMD going to release Palomino/Rambus combo anytime soon?

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limsandy

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Will there be any Palomino/Rambus platform? I don't think so..... I just don't know why. Can anyone think of a reason?
 
I can think of one clear reason why not - royalty payments that AMD would have to fork over if they developed a chipset for rambus. Rambus is such a legal hot potato, and so many of the original players have gotten burned, that it will certainly be a while before AMD even considers it.
 
With the nForce, why would you want Rambus? NVIDIA managed to make a dual channel DDR motherboard with low latency. Rambus is suck.
 


Well, with Rambus, AMD will have more platforms, other than SDRAM and DDR, and consumers will have more choices.
 
Nah the Athlon would suck with Rambus. The Pentium4 wants high bandwidth. It and it's chipset are designed to help hide the latency of Rambus so it can fully utitlize it's massive bandwidth.

The Athlon is more like the P3 in that it like lower latency, medium bandwidth memory rather than higher latency, high bandwidth ram.
 
AMD-Rambus?

Hmmm, only if I get a free Rambus fraud-defense lawyer free with every 256 megs of that ever so latent RAM to beat up on for stress relief 😉.

Xayd
 
I think AMD wants/needs more options, but they need to be steps in the right direction. Rambus is three steps back! Rambus is suck!
 
Now now now rbloedow, lets not jump to any drstic conclusions.
Rambus Inc, is a bunch of fraudulent lawyers that are out to line their pockets at any cost, even if it means screwing the consumers.

But I hate nVidia's PR nearly as much....

RDRAM the memory type is actually quite good and has a lot of potentional. The i820 was a disaster...there's not kinder way to put it. That is true and I think even intel employees will acknowledge the i820 is not a good P3 platform. Thus the i815.

But RDRAM in and of itself has lots of potential. DDR-II is supposedly a serial interface. Ultra ATA is being replaced with Serial ATA. USB = Universal Serial Bus, FireWire/IEEE1394 is also serial. For bus design, high speed serial can be very effective if it's done right.

Unfortuantely the P3 is several years old and was designed for a more moderately clocked low-latency parallel bus. It's also designed to have it's FSB synced to the memory bus. The i820 had neither of those properties. It was a high-speed serial asynchronous bus.

The i820 makes RDRAM look bad...and Rambus Inc makes anything they are involved with look bad. But RDRAM still has potential.
 
The palimino and RDRAM would suck. RDRAM's latency is just too high. Besides, dual PC2100 DDR should give high bandwidth and low latency. Out of curiousity, why would you want a Palimino/RDRAM combo?
 
i don't know if it'll be any time soon, but i think later in the future (hammer?) AMD will adopt some form of rdram, after all, they've invested some money from what i hear in its development.
 
Yeah, but before "in the future" comes along, the Crucial/Micron v. Rambus suit will be over and the ensuing bankruptcy will make all of Rambus's precious patent and copyright claims property of Micron. If anyone does anything with it, it'll be Crucial when they own it.

Xayd
 
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