hahaha I see, so they're gonna hire someone with rambus experience to do what, help engineer motherboards that use DDR SDRAM? That's pretty funny! So who's even got a specification for DDR SDRAM DIMM modules? Who has formally announced a chipset that utilizes DDR SDRAM? Who's backing SDRAM? Why is every memory manufacturer (except hitachi), Sony and Intel endorsing Rambus? C'mon people. Get a clue. Like it or not, Rambus isn't going anywhere with that kind of backing, especially when there's no one out there supporting DDR SDRAM except graphics companies like Nvidia. Rambus is shipping now, not sometime later. Rambus is new, and has room to grow (while SDRAM is at the end of its life cycle). Give the damn product a chance to mature. There's hardly any new technologies that are 100% out of the gate.
Actually, he's right. Hitachi and RMBS were both in an agreement, and Hitachi backed out after taking some of their IP with 'em. He's also right in that Hitachi ignored rmbs when they tried to keep their licensing agreement alive. Then, they take that relationship, and everything they learned from it and used it to manufacture and market products that use their own technology. This has left hitachi in a particularly bad position, since they're using a competitor's technology to compete with them, AND they're alone in doing so. Every other memory manufacturer already has agreements with rambus. By the way, do a job search on yahoo's classifieds:) Look in California, search for the company AMD, then use a keyword of RAMBUS. You might find something interesting:)
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hahaha I see, so they're gonna hire someone with rambus experience to do what, help engineer motherboards that use DDR SDRAM? That's pretty funny! So who's even got a specification for DDR SDRAM DIMM modules? Who has formally announced a chipset that utilizes DDR SDRAM? Who's backing SDRAM? Why is every memory manufacturer (except hitachi), Sony and Intel endorsing Rambus? C'mon people. Get a clue. Like it or not, Rambus isn't going anywhere with that kind of backing, especially when there's no one out there supporting DDR SDRAM except graphics companies like Nvidia. Rambus is shipping now, not sometime later. Rambus is new, and has room to grow (while SDRAM is at the end of its life cycle). Give the damn product a chance to mature. There's hardly any new technologies that are 100% out of the gate.
Actually, he's right. Hitachi and RMBS were both in an agreement, and Hitachi backed out after taking some of their IP with 'em. He's also right in that Hitachi ignored rmbs when they tried to keep their licensing agreement alive. Then, they take that relationship, and everything they learned from it and used it to manufacture and market products that use their own technology. This has left hitachi in a particularly bad position, since they're using a competitor's technology to compete with them, AND they're alone in doing so. Every other memory manufacturer already has agreements with rambus. By the way, do a job search on yahoo's classifieds :) Look in California, search for the company AMD, then use a keyword of RAMBUS. You might find something interesting :)