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  1. How is this not a monopoly... by alder · · Score: 1 · on Government Brings Antitrust Actions Against Rambus, Micron

    Well, it is not. It is called a protection of domestic industries. And though it may not seem fair from the RAM consumer point of view there are quite a bit of good reasons to justify such actions. Whether all of those are applicable to this particular case is a matter of a debate. And taking into account govenment actions, someone somewhere probably jumped over the head trying to protect them.

  2. Re:Bandwidth is nice. Latency is evil... by Beliskner · · Score: 2 · on PC1066 RDRAM vs. DDR SDRAM
    In the case of RAMBUS, there's more latency involved with the access of the memory than with DDR SDRAM
    <Jar Jar Binks>Exquuuuise me, ain't there nothing fa Electric Engineer? How's a me trusting you?</Jar Jar Binks>
    Thank you Jar Jar, good question, for the hardcore EE peeps, here's some PDFs so disable ROT13 ;-):
    DDR 133 timing sheet
    Rambus timing sheet
  3. Re:Bandwidth is nice. Latency is evil... by Beliskner · · Score: 2 · on PC1066 RDRAM vs. DDR SDRAM
    In the case of RAMBUS, there's more latency involved with the access of the memory than with DDR SDRAM
    <Jar Jar Binks>Exquuuuise me, ain't there nothing fa Electric Engineer? How's a me trusting you?</Jar Jar Binks>
    Thank you Jar Jar, good question, for the hardcore EE peeps, here's some PDFs so disable ROT13 ;-):
    DDR 133 timing sheet
    Rambus timing sheet
  4. How about Idaho? by HardCase · · Score: 2 · on The Price Of Doing Business
    The largest manufacturer of DRAM in the world (according to de Dios) is located in Boise, Idaho. And guess what? The pay is competitive, from operators to engineers.


    Oh yeah, and nobody here speaks with a drawl or says "eh".


    And spuds are tasty!


    -h-

  5. Re:Solid state by Liquid-Gecka · · Score: 4 · on Seagate Claims New Drive Silent and Fastest

    Flash is still EXTREEMLY expensive. Companies like Micron and Samsung are always looks for ways to drop the cost of solid state drives. Currently I have only seen a 4.3G solid state drive as the largest (Sorry.. no link at the moment) and, while it was fast, it was also extreemly expensive. (In the several thousand range.) It may have been quiet, but it sucked power at a far greater rate than any spinning media drive. Solid state sounds good on paper, and for some tasks it is good, but you have to think of this as a one or the other setup..

    Spinning Media vs Solid State
    Cheap vs Expensive (Pretty much no exceptions, no matter what you do silicon wafers are far more expensive than disks)
    Large vs Small (Solid state is still very restricted by speeds/sizes compaired to spinning media)
    Slow vs. Fast (With the right interface, if they both use IDE it really won't help that much)
    Small vs. Large power use (Even in a idle state flash sucks far more current than a motor. 11ma by 128 parts is 1.408a in its IDLE state)
    Loud vs. Quiet (Solid state is VERY quiet.. =)

    So, pick two or three areas that you are concerned with. If you want all the performance of a flash drive, with the cost of a spinning media drive you won't get a very large drive. Or if you want a large drive that is cheap, you won't get a quiet and fast drive.

    You know how the saying goes.. Good, Cheap, Fast... Pick two.

  6. Big Money. by TheFlu · · Score: 1 · on Cringley: Chip Manufacturing To Radically Change
    Sounds very promising if this does indeed come to pass. I wonder why the EUV LLC (which consists of Intel, AMD, Micron and Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories among others) seem to be waging their bets on Extreme Ultraviolet Lithography instead of looking at these new technologies? This new Lithography process is supposed to give us 10Ghz chips in the not so distant future. Then again, maybe these won't cost $15 a piece, so that could be the reason right there.

    Angry Penguins practice UltraViolent Lithography! The Linux Pimp

  7. Micron does have big brass ones, don't they? by Snocone · · Score: 3 · on Micron sues Rambus for antitrust violations

    Micron's always displayed a fair bit of spunk for a RAM maker, especially when somebody disses them but also when they see a chance to put the boot in.

    This ought to be very interesting :)

  8. Micron does have big brass ones, don't they? by Snocone · · Score: 3 · on Micron sues Rambus for antitrust violations

    Micron's always displayed a fair bit of spunk for a RAM maker, especially when somebody disses them but also when they see a chance to put the boot in.

    This ought to be very interesting :)

  9. You are all crazy! by xkahn · · Score: 1 · on Ask Slashdot: Hardware for Headless Linux Boxes
    Hmm... I think I got your attention. :^) First of all, YES! Linux supports a serial console. Good. Thanks. I'm glad you got that out of your system. Now, the REAL problem is that your BIOS probably doesn't support a serial console.

    So what, you ask? Ah. Imagine that you have a box which you can't touch. You can't see it. You can only contact it through the net. What happens when it crashes? How do you turn it on or off? What happens if a device fails and it won't boot? You need the BIOS to send all messages over the serial console too. (Not to mention recieve things like reboot messages via that same console.)

    x86 BIOSs don't tend to support this feature. My company bought a 4 way Xeon from Micron ( http://www.micron.com/) and it had this ability in it's Pheonix BIOS. And Denarius Enterprises, Inc ( http://www.denarius.com/) recently told me they will sell machines with this option as well. So others will probably sell you such machines -- you just have to ask.