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Intel To Drop RAMBUS In Favor of DDR RAM
El Pollo Loco writes: "Anandtech has this news article. Basically, Intel has decided to drop expensive rambus memory and instead to go with cheaper DDR memory."
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He been such a *whore* because he had the guts to admit that he was wrong about Rambus in the first place. He's not kissing their butt, he's just recognizing the facts : DDR just isn't good enough for Pentium 4. At these high clock rates, only Rambus delivers enough bandwidth to make the P4 happy.
And saying that Tom is accepting money is just ridiculous : he's probably the best hardwre journalist on the Net, and has no need to accept bribes from companies.
Before you accuse somebody of taking money or doing other things slimy and illegal, you should have something to back that up with. Basically what Tom has said all along is that Rambus gives you better memory bandwidth at the cost of latency. What he used to say is that the latency is unacceptable and the bandwidth wasn't needed and the price is too high. What he says now is that if you look at P4s with clock rates up above 2500Mhz they appear to need that super high bandwidth to perform at their best. And recent price increases in DDR have brought its price in line with RDRAM. Where do you see something fishy? It's the sign of integrity when somebody admits that a solution they said was bad has become better. I wish more politicians would have the guts to do so.