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Rambus Takes Another Shot At High-End Memory

Posted by timothy on from the memory-belongs-in-heads dept.

An anonymous reader writes "Tom's Hardware is running an article about Extreme Data Rate memory (XDR DRAM for short), which was developed by Rambus and now entered mass production in Samsung's fabs. Right now, Rambus says the memory is only for high-bandwidth multimedia applications such as Sony's Cell processor, but the company ultimately hopes to push XDR into PCs and graphics cards by 2006. Time will tell if Rambus has learned from the mistakes it made with RDRAM a few years ago."

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  1. Wait for it.... by eobanb · · Score: 3, Funny

    Apple to rebrand it as "RAM Extreme"

    --

    Take off every sig. For great justice.

  2. Re:Why do we use DRAM in this day and age? by Stevyn · · Score: 3, Funny

    Interesting?

    This is like saying why paint your walls with off-white stuff when you can coat them in a layer of gold that resists tarnish?

    Well, for one thing, it's greatly more expensive.

  3. Gillette just called. They want their razor back. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 3, Funny

    Alright. Extreme Data Rate? C'mon, this is RAM we're talking about here, not a goddamned razor.

    May as well call it Extreme Data Rate 3D Titanium Mach 5 Turbo 2k5 Deluxe Edition, or some such...