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Intel to stick with Rambus strategy
News Intel plans to stick with its stated strategy for pairing Rambus DRAM, or RDRAM, with its high-end products such as Pentium 4, the company said yesterday. While Intel plans to keep the often-criticised RDRAM technology at the top of its product...
[February 28, 2001, 8:54]
Rambus readies faster, cheaper memory
News Samsung has finished development of a faster, denser -- and cheaper -- RDRAM chip. The faster new chips will also cost less to manufacture than current RDRAM chips, Samsung said. Currently, RDRAM-based PCs cost about $100 more than similarly...
[September 27, 2001, 16:56]
IDF: Intel drops Rambus for workstations
News Intel will no longer include support for memory based on designs for Rambus DRAM technology in new workstation chipsets, although it will continue to update its desktop chipsets to work with RDRAM, company executives said at the Intel Developer...
[September 12, 2002, 13:26]
IDF: Faster Rambus DRAM to take on rivals
News The new RDRAM flavour is called RIMM4200 and is an update of Rambus' RIMM technology -- for Rambus inline memory module. The RIMM4200 module also uses new, speedier RDRAM chips running at 1066MHz. The current Rambus RIMM uses 800MHz RDRAM chips.
[February 26, 2002, 11:55]
Intel to phase out Rambus discounts
News At the same time, there are signs that DDR DRAM (double data rate DRAM) memory is gaining on RDRAM in sales. Lower RDRAM prices and Intel's own steep price cuts on Pentium 4 have made the programme redundant, the company said.
[July 25, 2001, 15:11]
Rambus reveals royalty rates
News Testifying on Wednesday in the company's patent infringement trial against German chipmaker Infineon Technologies, Rambus executives disclosed that the company charges memory chipmakers a 3.5 percent royalty on the manufacture of DDR DRAM, a high...
[May 3, 2001, 9:20]
Intel paves the way for cheaper Pentium 4 PCs
News There were some reservations in the past, but we've had two years of mass production that show that an RDRAM system is highly reliable and stable. Intel has pursued a policy of heavy price reductions on Pentium 4, as well as subsidising the cost of...
[September 7, 2001, 17:01]
Intel motherboard whacked by chip noise
News Intel plans to replace all the 820 motherboards with SDRAM support it has sold directly to its customers with an Intel 820 chip set motherboard with RDRAM memory. It enables the chip set, which was designed to work with Rambus dynamic RAM (RDRAM...
[May 10, 2000, 15:02]
Intel to bring SDRAM to Pentium 4
News Intel officials feel that Rambus direct RAM (RDRAM) will continue to be the memory of choice for the performance desktop. RDRAM continues to command a hefty premium over SDRAM. News of the new chip set may seem like a change of direction for Intel...
[July 26, 2000, 9:07]
Pentium 4 set for Halloween launch
News The chip, aside from a higher clock speed, will offer a faster system bus, running at 400MHz, and will be paired with dual-channel Rambus direct RAM (RDRAM) memory. The company's goal is to lessen the price of RDRAM memory, lest it stand in the way...
[September 25, 2000, 7:54]
Rambus sues Hitachi over patent infringement
News The products names in the suit are not compatible with Rambus' proprietary RDRAM specification. Hitachi has licensed RDRAM and the and received the technology but has not produced Rambus products. Rambus Tuesday filed suit against Hitachi for...
[January 19, 2000, 14:57]
Intel chips in for cheaper Pentium 4 PCs
News Part of what remains to be seen is how much performance RDRAM buys you over synchronous dynamic RAM, Feibus said. With RDRAM pricing and availability such as it is, Intel wants to make sure that it doesn't stand in the way of Pentium 4 adoption...
[September 11, 2000, 10:22]
2GHz PCs ready for launch
News A basic configuration is expected to include a 2GHz chip, 128MB of RDRAM, a 40GB hard drive, a CD-RW drive and a 17-inch monitor. The computer will come with a 2GHz Pentium 4 processor, 128MB of RDRAM, a 20GB hard drive, a CD-ROM and a 17-inch...
[August 24, 2001, 8:48]
Pentium III chipset delayed
News Rambus Direct RAM, or RDRAM, developed by Rambus Inc.and licensed by Intel and other semiconductor makers, is a new kind of memory used by the chip set. The delay doesn't mean it doesn't work, Gelsinger added, citing his demonstration of a system...
[February 25, 1999, 8:35]
Intel chipset wakens new memory
News Memory and PC makers, however, became increasingly bitter about the high cost and production delays associated with RDRAM. As a result, "we think that there's a compelling performance advantage for RDRAM systems", Fox said.
[December 18, 2001, 8:58]
Intel speeds Pentium 4 memory access
News Like its predecessor, the 850, it uses only Rambus' proprietary RDRAM memory. RDRAM delivers better performance than the competing double data rate (DDR) DRAM format favoured by semiconductor manufacturers, but the industry has shunned RDRAM...
[May 6, 2002, 7:32]
New Pentium 4 chipset to tiptoe out
News Like standard memory, DDR SDRAM costs less than memory based on designs from Rambus, called RDRAM. RDRAM was, at one time, the only memory available for the Pentium 4. At the same time, 128MB modules of PC 2100 DDR SDRAM were going for about $20...
[December 12, 2001, 9:43]
Rambus starts licensing designs to use disputed memory
News Rambus came to prominence by designing RDRAM, a high-speed memory that many expected would become a standard. Subsequently, Rambus sued Micron, Infineon and Hynix, claiming that DDR DRAM infringes on the intellectual property behind RDRAM.
[May 10, 2004, 12:00]
Rambus speeds up chip connections
News While the company came to prominence marketing a type of memory (called RDRAM), it is now focused on a variety of input-output technologies, including a technology called Raser for connecting different circuit boards.
[February 17, 2003, 7:53]
Memory standards wage war of words
News SDRAM holds about 90 percent of the memory market presently, with DDR and its competitor, Rambus DRAM (RDRAM), holding about 5 percent each. RDRAM has long been supported by Intel, which designed its recently-launched Pentium 4 processor to run...
[June 11, 2001, 11:18]
