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  • UltraWide - Monday, August 17, 2015 - link

    Rambust has some staying power. After all their shady tactics, I am impressed they are still around.
  • JatkarP - Monday, August 17, 2015 - link

    @Ryan: How does this RCD work ? By the diagram this seems like C/A and CLK are divided at the center of DIMM and traversing towards the 4 physical DRAM chips independently. This was not the case in traditional DIMMS where C/A and CLK used to traverse from DRAM chip 0 to 7. If my analogy is true these DIMMS using RCD must have very less latency compared to the ones are in market. Hopefully you review one of these in near future.
  • headamp - Tuesday, August 18, 2015 - link

    JatkarP, C/A and CLK are received by a register, then retransmitted, left and right, to the DRAMs. Since the C/A signals have to be retransmitted on the next clock cycle, the latency is actually higher - the register receives on one CLK then outputs on the next CLK. It's the same as any other registered DIMM.

    Rambus's RCD isn't a breakthrough or anything new. RDIMMs and LRDIMMs have been around for a while. There are a bunch of companies making registers (what Rambus calls a "register clock driver") and buffers. This is just something new for Rambus.
  • jabber - Monday, August 17, 2015 - link

    What's that awful smell?...A smell I've not smelt since...
  • WaltC - Monday, August 17, 2015 - link

    Whose tech are they stealing now, I wonder...?
  • masouth - Monday, August 17, 2015 - link

    stealing? I don't remember them stealing anything so much as setting patent ambush traps from inside JEDEC. Still pretty darn shady but not exactly stealing.
  • Samus - Wednesday, August 19, 2015 - link

    RAMBUS is actually quite innovative. But by innovative, I mean niche and mostly unnecessary.

    RDRAM was like those 3-wheel motorcycles with the two wheels in the front (like a reverse trike) which is to say...why?

    As far as I know, they didn't ever "steal" technology, in the same way nobody ever "stole" their technology. That's what the patent BS was about. RAMBUS basically participated in JEDEC and provided a lot of advice, NOT IP, and when some manufactures implemented things the way RAMBUS described, RAMBUS cried patent infringement. They have no idea what a consortium is.
  • dgingeri - Monday, August 17, 2015 - link

    They killed their credibility ages ago with those bully lawsuits. I don't think memory manufacturers will ever give them any consideration again. I'm surprised Sony even gave them consideration for that PS3 design win. If I were into consoles, I'd avoid the PS3 specifically for that. I fully intend to avoid their products for the foreseeable future.
  • Drumsticks - Monday, August 17, 2015 - link

    It may not be hard to do that, given that the PS3 came out nearly ten years ago. :P
  • IanHagen - Monday, August 17, 2015 - link

    The world is changed. I feel it in the water. I feel it in the earth. I smell it in the air. Much that once was is lost, for none now live who remember it. It began with the forging of the overpriced hardware...
  • timbotim - Monday, August 17, 2015 - link

    I for one shall be avoiding their products, as I have managed to do so with another company which acted in a disrespectful manner to the tech community. How their patents were ever granted still escapes me to this day.
  • Michael Bay - Monday, August 17, 2015 - link

    That "enchanced system reliablity" in concept phase is quite funny.
  • minijedimaster - Monday, August 17, 2015 - link

    There must be some decision makers at intel and sony that own stock/shares of Rambus or something.... I don't see how these guys still exist. DIE ALREADY
  • prisonerX - Monday, August 17, 2015 - link

    Wow, these scumbags are still in business?
  • vred - Monday, August 17, 2015 - link

    Rambus: patent-trolling before it was a trend.
  • prisonerX - Monday, August 17, 2015 - link

    They were true "innovators"
  • snoukkis - Tuesday, August 18, 2015 - link

    Seems they are brushing up their image. Even their Wikipedia article was fixed by replacing mentions of trolling in the introductory paragraph with vapor about their future achievements. =)
  • meacupla - Tuesday, August 18, 2015 - link

    I'm surprised they haven't done what other tarnished brands have done and changed their name already.

    I'd change their name to Trollbus, umadbus or plagiarism.
  • Pissedoffyouth - Thursday, August 20, 2015 - link

    lol umadbus
  • 'nar - Wednesday, August 19, 2015 - link

    Quite honestly if they where "Taco Bell" in "Demolition Man" I would never go out to eat.

    They are not trying to help anyone by providing a service, they used the service to manipulate the system and take from everyone else. Even if they have changed, the company still deserves to die. Reporting on their technology gives them undeserved recognition.

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