I miss RAMBUS......

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Why did Rambus fail, was it just b-cos it was expensive ?, I'm sure it was the better way to go, if we had stuck with it we would have much better ram in our systems by now surely, I'm still using 1gig of RDRAM running at 1066mhz in my secoundry system and that ram is like 3 or more years old, rambus seems to be making a come back in the ps3 tho, and its running at over 3gig :eek: , just think if we had stuck with it, then we might of been running xdr in our pc's now at these speeds also, infact proberbly nearer to 4gig in speed.
 
I thought intel bought the rights to it hence it'd be just a tad naughty if AMD used it?
 
From my memories of it, it was too expensive, ran too hot and didn't deliver the kind of performance that Rambus said it could.

Jokester
 
So who actually invented DDR then?
Was it a joint effort with AMD and Intel as if not how come Intel are using DDR then?

p.s. I ask this question as if Intel wouldn't have liked AMD using their Rambus technology, I am just curious if a similar licensing agreement exists with DDR technology?
 
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RAMBUS memory is made and developed by a different company, not Intel. AFAIK they threatened Intel with lawsuits when Intel dropped its support

One of the main reasons why RAMBUS memory was so expensive was the fact that all of the manufacturers who made RDRAM had to pay loyalty fees to RAMBUS themselves

As above, it ran very hot, had huge latencies and it was very expensive. It was also serially accessed, meaning that data on the final memory stick was slower to access than data on the primary stick

It also performed below par
 
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