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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. Rambus seems to forget by onyxruby · · Score: 5, Insightful
    Rambus seems to forget their attempt to shanghai the entire memory business through fraud a few years ago. Perhaps they should be reminded that the IT community has not. They should sell their IP and disolve themselves to avoid losing their stockholders any more money.

    I have adamantly refused to purchase any system that would use their memory for years, and more to the point have made that decision for others that depend on me making that decision. That's a lot of computers over the years were talking about. I am also far from alone.