I have nothing against DRDRAM as a technology, it definitely has it's advantages and there are assuredly some areas in which it is an excellent solution.
I do not believe it is well suited to the mainstream X86 desktop market, and even less suited towards the high end server or mobile markets but there are some markets wherein DRDRAM is an extremely good solution.
As a company- I despise Rambus. There whole fiasco with JEDEC was sickening, going against all JEDEC regulations and practices, blatantly stealing open JEDED technology and obtaining patents on technology that was supposed to be shared. Claiming royalties on patents they did not own. Rather harshly attempting to make some rather shjady deals to curtail all production of non-DRDRAM memory.
This is only lightly touching on the surface aspects, but as a company I despise Rambus with a passion. Their not a company of engineers.... their a company of lawyers that steal technology and sue DRAM/chipset manufacturers for anything and everything under the sun.
I also dislike Rambus for the extremely disgusting deal they and Intel dug up together that effectively prevented Intel from making any non DRDRAM chipsets for a period of a number of years before Intel got out of that deal.
There are very few corporations I do like..., but Rambus is one of a handful of corporations that I absolutely dispise with a passion. And they hold the dubious honor of being the single corporation where I honestly cannot say even a single positive thing about them.
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Rambus (The Company, not DRAM) is SUCK!
