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More Manufacturers Stop Making RAMBUS

BFG10K

BFG10K

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I like Tom's Hardware because almost everyday he brings us good news of how badly RAMBUS is doing. 😀
This latest article explains how 3 Taiwan chip manufacturers are ditching its production mainly because of the growing demand for DDR RAM and the falling demand for RDRAM. The more the merrier I say!

Read it here.
 
Anyone else getting tired of all of this RB bashing?

Of course, you will not understand, and no one can make you RB bashers understand the importance of RB technoloy. It will be used in the future.

Patrick Palm

Am speaking for PC Resoruces
 
serial memory is the future... but that doesn't mean rambus is the future..

and rambus has every right to be bashed.. they tout their supposed superior memory, with rigged benchmarks that falsely show the performance of rambus....
 
Well, I wonder if Rambus will be around the day that their memory solutions will have a big enough market to support their armada of lawyers.

Im gonna hafta go with e-phex on this one, I dont think Rambus(the corp) will be around for all that much longer, they've simply made too many enemies.
 
Anyone else getting tired of all of this RB bashing?

The title of the thread was very clear. If you don't like it nobody is asking you to read it.

And by "bashing" you mean posting up links to press releases of companies that are no longer supporting it? Are those companies "bashing" RAMBUS by not manufacturing RIMMs anymore? Are we not allowed to speak against up RAMBUS anymore? The last time I checked this was an open forum.

I guess somebody who works for/has shares in RAMBUS would consider anyone who speaking out against them as "bashing".

and rambus has every right to be bashed.. they tout their supposed superior memory, with rigged benchmarks that falsely show the performance of rambus....

Not to mention the fact that they are trying to sue the entire memory industry and claim SDRAM technology as their own when they were originally getting the technology for free under an open-license agreement.
 
Rambus spanked by U.S. International Trade Commission judge.ebnews
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Rambus Inc. was reprimanded for "blatant judge shopping" in an official ruling at the U.S. International Trade Commission and restrictions imposed on the DRAM designer if it ever filed another synchronous DRAM patent complaint at the trade body.
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Harris ruled that if Rambus in the future ever filed a new synchronous patent infringement case against Hyundai, or even any other firm, such a petition must be assigned to his court if he is able to hear it.
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Just say no to Rimm jobs.
 
How do you know serial RAM is the future?

Maybe one possible future, but not "the" future.

In my opinion, all serial RAM does is move the complexity from the motherboard to the RAM.
 


<< Anyone else getting tired of all of this RB bashing? >>

Uh, what bashing? nobody's bashing Rambus, BFG just stated a fact. Rambus may or may not be the future. Their business practices make M$ look like shiny happy people, so I personally hope they go down in flames.
 


<< It will be used in the future >>

Yes, but to what capacity? Don't start touting the upcoming 8-channel RDRAM Alpha systems....I hate to break it to you, but few people can afford an Alpha...

AMD is showing it's full support for DDR SDRAM, and hasn't mentioned RDRAM since it licensed it a few years ago.

Intel's roadmap shows the use of RDRAM only in the high-end workstation segment, while the desktop market will move completely to DDR SDRAM by mid-2001 (Intel 'to dump Rambus completely').

It is obvious that DDR SDRAM is the immediate high-performance DRAM of choice. Serial DRAM may become very important in the future, but I have doubts of the future of RDRAM. If Intel's i820 team, containing Intel's reknown engineers, failed to make a decent RDRAM memory controller and chipset, one must wonder about the viability of the memory technology.

BTW, thank you BFG10K for this relevant news bit about the state of the DRAM industry.
 
Patrick,

You have to stop believing everything intel tells you. RDRAM will not be the key to the future as long as Rambus, the company, continues to exist as a toll collectors.
 
OK, OK, OK, I admit it. I am a cheapskate!!!

And until recently, RDRAM has been outrageously priced much higher than SDRAM. I am primarily a (power) home user and I really like to get the most bang for my bucks. To date, I have seen NO PROMISE that RDRAM will provide the most bang for ANY kind of bucks. I am thinking that most users like me feel the same way.

I have never said that RDRAM, or Intel, or anyone sucks, but until my pockets are infinitely deep, price-performance ratios will guide my purchases.

-SUO
 
&quot;Anyone else getting tired of all of this RB bashing?&quot;

I will be--after they file Chapter 7!! 😎 Regardless of what I think of &quot;their&quot; (?) technology, the thought of a parasite IT business muzzling our free markets sends shivers up my spine :frown:

Eat my DIMM's, Rambust!
 
Serial ram may be the way of the future but I bet there are a lot of engineers working at many memory companies doing their best to make sure it is not a Rambus design that suceeds.
 
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