Damn Intel changing Memory!

I knew this was coming, it was predictable after the death of Rambus memory on the Pentium 4 platform. Any memory standard which is only pushed by Intel and not AMD is not in a secure position.

It is frustrating that Intel does not make a dual-socket standard DDR2 or DDR3 chipset. The 5000 chipset supports only expensive FB-DIMMs.

The Intel 3000 chipset motherboards is a cheaper option to avoid FB-DIMMs, when you only need one cpu socket. Don't even get me started on Socket 771 vs socket 775 price disparity.

And So We Got Screwed

Yeah, I knew this was coming. Too bad for my company too. We have oodles of 1 and 2GB sticks of this stuff that in a year or so will be completely useless to us. My hope is that we can get rid of it all before then.

XDR SDRAM2

Last night I was searching info about XDR and I found this link if someone could translate it would be very nice.
http://www.stor-age.com/zhuanti/htm2005/05080800ZC5D.asp

I hope AMD do something with the Opteron (Bulldozer), The Zram licence & the Rambus one too.