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DDR-SDRAM Explained
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| Tue Nov 07, 2000 | 5:00P| PermaLink |
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"DDR-SDRAM and Rambus DRAM have been the two competitors for the memory of the
future. Rambus DRAM was seen by most, myself included, as the future. This was
caused by the continuing trend that when Intel speaks, everybody listens. Intel
said that RDRAM was the future, and as such it was accepted as inevitable.
However, RDRAM was DAMN expensive ($340 at the time of writing for a 64MB
stick). It was to the point of people needing an RDRAM slush fund, right next
to their Roth IRA, in case one needed to upgrade. A number of RDRAM chipsets
were produced, primarily for high end servers and whatnot, due to the
effectiveness of Rambus. Then we forgot about it. It currently only holds about
2.5% of the market for memory technologies this year, expected to only jump
marginally in the next couple years. "
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FULL STORY @
PCMECH
(http://www.pcmech.com/article.htm?ddr-sdram)
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