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Rambus Designing PC Chip Interconnect

Posted by timothy on from the dog-in-the-fight dept.

MarkRH writes "Although the issue of Sony licensing the Rambus Yellowstone technology for future (PlayStation) products has already been covered, I would humbly submit that the company's new "Redwood" chip-to-chip interconnect is equally important. Rambus seems to want PC designers to adopt this as an alternative to PCI Express and HyperTransport, although who would license this is a puzzling question."

6 comments

  1. Are they relevant anymore? by FattMattP · · Score: 3, Insightful

    None one should be buying anything from Rambus anymore after the stunt they pulled with their memory patent. Let 'em sink.

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    1. Re:Are they relevant anymore? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      mod parent up. what's their engineer to patent attorney ratio? 1:100? they are a useless "IP" company, they don't give a shit, they just want royalties on every computing device in the world.

    2. Re:Are they relevant anymore? by Romothecus · · Score: 1

      Given the fact that there are 4 comments (counting this one and a troll) 7 1/2 hours after the story "broke," I would agree: no, they aren't relevant anymore.

  2. Replacing PCI by TheCrimsonUnbeliever · · Score: 2, Insightful

    Who needs to replace PCI? - It has some limitations but on the whole it works

    And with PCI64 emerging - This technology looks like it is never going to get of the ground

    Some times innovation works - sometimes - No

    1. Re:Replacing PCI by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 0

      Who needs to replace PCI? - It has some limitations but on the whole it works

      If it didn't work, on the whole, it wouldn't be used. Most things that are popular tend to work "on the whole".

      And you answered your own question: a replacement, presumably, wouldn't have those limitations. :-) Why live with what you've got just because you've got it? Shouldn't you try to make it better?

      Being able to hot-plug things like graphics cards, network cards, and I/O cards (like Firewire cards) will save gobs of time for anybody who has to do hardware maintenance. I can't believe a spec as new as PCI isn't hot-plug. (Well, I can...)

      It'll also move us one step closer to computers as information appliances instead of complex devices you have to reboot whenever you change something.