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Friday, January 06 2006

The Return Of Rambus!  by Liam S at 23:37

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Intel once tried to be different when it implemented Rambus in the first few revisions of the Pentium 4. Performance wise it was ok, had a Huge bandwidth (DDR has finally caught up!) but was hugely expensive, my first P4 rig had pc1066 rambus with 4.8gb/s bandwidth and that was a good few years ago.

AMD have signed a deal worth $75million with Rambus so could we see a rebirth of it in the PC market? so far SONY have been their only large outlet for useage in the PlayStation 2. Source Daily Tech
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Maz
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06 January 2006 23:49
didnt rambus require that you had two sticks and that any spare slots were blanked with silly little boards
D3CYPH3R
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06 January 2006 23:53
at first, the mobos came with terminating units, they later made single channel units too, but all ddr is heading dual anyway.
Mani
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07 January 2006 14:07
They only licensed some memory controller tech, mainly with refernece to DDR2 and FB-Dimms afaik.
Planatoid
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09 January 2006 08:24
I don't believe they're making RAM anymore, but some kind of other memory.


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