Rambus going after graphics ram business

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Multi-threaded memory, believe it or not.

MercuryNews.com | 05/02/2005 | Rambus is taking aim at slow-moving graphics
http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11543830.htm

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Yousuf Khan wrote:

> Multi-threaded memory, believe it or not.
>
> MercuryNews.com | 05/02/2005 | Rambus is taking aim at slow-moving
> graphics http://www.siliconvalley.com/mld/siliconvalley/11543830.htm

Rambus struggling hard to find a way to keep from going under after their
attempted takeover of the PC market blew up in their overpriced,
underperforming, proprietary faces.

There's nothing that prevents a CPU manufacturer from implementing what
they're describing using purely conventional means--if there was a reason
to do so they'd have done it. They're basically just making the RAM
byte-addressable with four 8-bit buses instead of one 32-bit bus.


> Yousuf Khan

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J. Clarke wrote:
> There's nothing that prevents a CPU manufacturer from implementing what
> they're describing using purely conventional means--if there was a reason
> to do so they'd have done it. They're basically just making the RAM
> byte-addressable with four 8-bit buses instead of one 32-bit bus.

Maybe that's the point? If a PC manufacturer tries to do something like
this, then perhaps Rambus can claim that a patent already exists for this?

Yousuf Khan