90% of the chip counts in the Cell Broadband Engine is Rambus technology and is properly licensed. Cell BE also uses Rambus XDR Memory. Rambus has been driving memory technology forward for the past 16 years. Almost everyone else just steals and copies it from them. I thought the tech people in slashdot would know better.
DDR is a cheap copycat of RDRAM. How can you explain how PS2 has been running on only 32MB of RDRAM all these years. Do you think PS2 could have run on 32MB of DDR? The DRAM cartel have slowed computing progess by decades just because they don't want to pay for revolutionary ideas on how to make DRAM and chip to chip communications better. Understand the situation first before mouthing off on what you don't know about.
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Orders of magnitude improvement in performance, performance per watt, etc etc etc. Would probably end up a lot cheaper as well.
90% of the chip counts in the Cell Broadband Engine is Rambus technology and is properly licensed. Cell BE also uses Rambus XDR Memory. Rambus has been driving memory technology forward for the past 16 years. Almost everyone else just steals and copies it from them. I thought the tech people in slashdot would know better. DDR is a cheap copycat of RDRAM. How can you explain how PS2 has been running on only 32MB of RDRAM all these years. Do you think PS2 could have run on 32MB of DDR? The DRAM cartel have slowed computing progess by decades just because they don't want to pay for revolutionary ideas on how to make DRAM and chip to chip communications better. Understand the situation first before mouthing off on what you don't know about.