Rambus formally launched its chip-to-chip interconnect

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• Reply 1 of 8

  hmurchison Posts: 12,423member

  February 17, 2003 4:58PM

  RAMBUS isn't exactly the greatest name out there after their memory squabbles but they do have capable Tech. I wonder who will license this Redwood Tech beyond Sony.
• Reply 2 of 8

  torifile Posts: 4,024member

  February 17, 2003 5:30PM

  Is Rambus still around? I haven't heard anything about them in a long time. (Not that I pay much attention to this sort of thing......)
• Reply 3 of 8

  interface widget Posts: 8member

  February 17, 2003 6:59PM

  I think Rambus and Apple would make unlikely partners, but this is nonetheless interesting....
  
  
  
  My guess is that Apple will align themselves as closely as possible with IBM's chosen bus technology and chipset plans. This would minimise the time required to integrate future IBM products, such as the POWER5, into future Apple products. Sony have successfully used Rambus in the playstation, and are working with IBM to develop the Playstation 3 "Cell" processor. Could Rambus play with IBM, Sony and Apple?
• Reply 4 of 8

  tink Posts: 395member

  February 17, 2003 7:48PM

  Personally I thought Rambus was pretty much out of the picture.
  
  
  
  However, I see more mid and high end PC workstations using dual-channel RDRAM especially with Xeon processors or the faster Pentium 4 with 533MHz front side bus.
  
  
  
  -tink
  
  
  
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• Reply 5 of 8

  producer Posts: 283member

  February 17, 2003 8:58PM

  Cues THT
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  outsider Posts: 6,008member

  February 17, 2003 10:08PM

  I always admired the Rambus technology, but the company practices were horrid. Hopefully they have shaped up.
• Reply 7 of 8

  tulkas Posts: 3,757member

  February 18, 2003 1:01AM

  Last i had heard, Rambus had all sorts of lawsuits etc on the go. The volume of lawsuits and the general practice of suing for profit was turning off their main all, Intel, especially when it looked like they might not win the important lawsuits.
  
  
  
  At the end of january of this year, Rambus won their most important lawsuit against Infineon. Basically, the court ruled that RAMBUS did not intentionally mislead members of JEDEC when the committee was developing the SDRAM. This would allow Rambus to charge royalties against traditional SDRAM manufactures, driving the prices up and therefore making their oen rambus memory pricing more competitive.
• Reply 8 of 8

  wrong robot Posts: 3,907member

  February 18, 2003 1:26AM

  I remember when a windows using friend of mine got his new computer with Rambus RAM...he would not stop talking about how "amazingly fast and unlike any other RAM there is" He just got a new computer again and I believe it uses DDR, and not rambus