Taken from OCWorkbench
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As sales of DDR boards are not well accepted. Taiwanese manufacturers like ASUS, GIGABYTE, MSI will slow down their development of their DDR product lines.
Intel is slashing pricing of Pentium 4, and this will definitely increase the sales of P4. DDR and P4 are moving in opposite directions. Mainboard manufacturers says that the current market is not stable. PC133 SDRAM mainboards has matured and cheaper boards is more acceptable by the masses. The higher end DDR boards are squeezed out of the market.
In addition, boards coupled with DDR+P3 performance is only 10% faster than the SDRAM+P3 platform. Thus ASUS,GIGABYTE,MSI R&D will stop their development of DDR boards. It is also mentioned that now most manufacturers are concentrating on OEM for PC133+Socket 478 mainboards.
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Damn...just when we thought it was safe to upgrade. Guess its time to buy rambus stock again!
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As sales of DDR boards are not well accepted. Taiwanese manufacturers like ASUS, GIGABYTE, MSI will slow down their development of their DDR product lines.
Intel is slashing pricing of Pentium 4, and this will definitely increase the sales of P4. DDR and P4 are moving in opposite directions. Mainboard manufacturers says that the current market is not stable. PC133 SDRAM mainboards has matured and cheaper boards is more acceptable by the masses. The higher end DDR boards are squeezed out of the market.
In addition, boards coupled with DDR+P3 performance is only 10% faster than the SDRAM+P3 platform. Thus ASUS,GIGABYTE,MSI R&D will stop their development of DDR boards. It is also mentioned that now most manufacturers are concentrating on OEM for PC133+Socket 478 mainboards.
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Damn...just when we thought it was safe to upgrade. Guess its time to buy rambus stock again!
