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Rambus-powered PCs In The Works
News The new chip set is significant for Intel because it replaces the ageing 440BX chip set, which offers a 100MHz system bus and support for synchronous dynamic RAM. Intel chose Rambus over Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic RAM, another next...
[November 2, 1999, 8:23]
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. Nevertheless, the premium over standard synchronous dynamic RAM (SDRAM) is still about 200 percent.
[September 11, 2000, 10:22]
PC Makers Rolling Out 800MHz PIIIs
News When matched with 128MB of synchronous dynamic RAM, a 27GB hard drive and a 17-inch monitor, the PC will sell for $2,119, according to Dell. Instead of 820 and Rambus, they offer Intel's 440BX with a 100MHz system bus and 100MHz synchronous dynamic...
[December 21, 1999, 8:42]
New AMD Chipset To Make Monster PCs
News The new memory -- called double data rate synchronous dynamic RAM (DDR SDRAM) -- can more than double the bandwidth available from today's 133MHz synchronous dynamic RAM or PC133 memory. Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) is preparing to unleash a new...
[October 27, 2000, 8:44]
New AMD Chip Set To Boost Athlon PCs
News This memory can more than double the peak bandwidth available from today's 133MHz synchronous dynamic RAM or PC133 memory. The AMD 760 chipset supports double data rate synchronous dynamic RAM (DDR SDRAM).
[October 31, 2000, 8:58]
Intel Delays Launch Of 820 Chip Set Again
News Rambus, which is new memory technology that offers much higher data bandwidth than the synchronous dynamic RAM being used in today's PCs, is a controversial technology. The 440BX supports a 100MHz system bus, 100MHz synchronous dynamic RAM and 2X...
[September 27, 1999, 14:19]
Double Delight For PC Memory Makers
News For makers of PC memory known as double data rate synchronous dynamic RAM, 2004 is shaping up as a two-pronged winner: prices for the current technology are surging, and a new, high-profit replacement is about to hit store shelves.
[April 14, 2004, 11:15]
Intel To Bring SDRAM To Pentium 4
News Intel today will make public plans to support synchronous dynamic RAM (SDRAM) for its forthcoming Pentium 4 chip. Intel officials feel that Rambus direct RAM (RDRAM) will continue to be the memory of choice for the performance desktop.
[July 26, 2000, 9:07]
Intel Motherboard Whacked By Chip Noise
News The company announced Wednesday morning that it will replace motherboards using its 820 chip set that are exhibiting symptoms of a problem with a related component -- called a memory translator hub, or MTH -- with synchronous dynamic RAM (SDRAM).
[May 10, 2000, 15:02]
Dell's New PCs Toe Performance Line
News The line starts at $1,299 for a 733MHz Pentium III system with 128MB of PC133 synchronous dynamic RAM, a 10GB hard disk drive and a 17-inch monitor. Also, because the line uses SDRAM memory instead of the more expensive Rambus dynamic RAM (RDRAM...
[July 11, 2000, 9:14]
Intel Plan: New Chip Sets, Faster PCs
News For consumers, the 815's most important new feature is support of 133MHz synchronous dynamic RAM. PC makers shipping Rambus Dynamic RAM memory are expected to add the new chip set into production without fanfare.
[June 2, 2000, 9:26]
Ruckus Over Intel's Rambus Technology
News Compared to synchronous dynamic RAM prices, except in this past week, that's a hefty premium. Performance and price concerns centre around Rambus Dynamic RAM, the new memory technology supported by the chip set.
[September 23, 1999, 8:40]
1GHz PCs: Fast, But Certainly Not Cheap
News That PC will likely be fitted with Rambus memory (Rambus Dynamic RAM), which, at the moment, costs more than twice as much as the synchronous dynamic RAM (SDRAM) used by Athlon systems. While Intel and Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) are sprinting...
[March 3, 2000, 9:03]
Intersil Powers DDR Memory For Graphics And Computing
White Papers Double Data Rate (DDR) Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory (SDRAM) is today's memory of choice for desktop PCs, notebooks and graphics cards. As it's name implies, DDR SDRAM operates at a rate double that of previous-generation Random Access...
[October 4, 2004, 0:00]
Pentium III Chipset Delayed
News IT managers will have to live with the Pentium III coupled with Intel's 440BX chip set, which supports a 100MHz system bus and 100MHz synchronous dynamic RAM, for a bit longer. The 820 supports a 133MHz system bus, 4X AGP and new Rambus Direct RAM.
[February 25, 1999, 8:35]
Pre-emptive Strike: Micron Sues Rambus
News The suit, which challenges Rambus' claims to rights to certain synchronous dynamic RAM (SDRAM) technologies, has the potential to damage Rambus, because all its revenue comes from licensing memory technology.
[August 30, 2000, 9:18]
Ruckus Over Intel's Rambus Technology - Part II
News The 440BX supports a 100MHz system bus, 100MHz synchronous dynamic RAM and 2X accelerated graphics port (AGP). The 820 will step up to a 133MHz bus, 4X AGP and Rambus Direct RAM as well as ATA66 support.
[September 23, 1999, 8:45]
PC Memory: The Next Great Battle?
News Both are the contenders to replace synchronous dynamic RAM (SDRAM) as the mainstay PC memory technology. The technologies at the centre of the debate are Rambus direct RAM and double data rate DRAM (DDR).
[March 24, 2000, 9:53]
Pentium 4 May Miss Sales Targets
News He said the slow sales derive from the chip's reliance on Rambus Direct RAM (RDRAM), which is more expensive than industry-standard Synchronous Dynamic RAM (SDRAM). Pentium 4 will not hit Intel's sales targets for 2001 because of its reliance on...
[June 19, 2001, 12:25]
Intel Confirms 820 Chip Set Delay
News With its 133MHz system bus and support for Rambus Direct RAM, the 820 could significantly increase overall system performance over the current 440BX chip set, which has a 100MHz system bus and supports 100MHz synchronous dynamic RAM.
[September 28, 1999, 9:34]
