Rimtel rides again
THE BOYS ARE BACK in town. Get that music playing in the imagination of your brain - Intel and Rambus are planning another assault on the high-end enthusiast computing space.
Many of you will, I'm sure, remember the dreadful days of Intel's Rambus / Pentium 4 escapades, where the chip maker attempted to eschew the traditional DDR standards, handing a large wodge of market share to AMD in the process.
Well, after staying true to the DDR fold for years now, the new XDR memory from Rambus seems to have tempted Intel back to the table, with the two firms signing a new 'Memorandum of Understanding' that will see them collaborate on finding uses for XDR, which is currently employed as super-fast main memory in the Playstation 3.
What the future holds for XDR is uncertain, as is the likelihood of a Rambus mainstream revival. But one thing is for sure - speculating is going to be a lot of fun. µ
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Hi everyone!

Speculation might be fun but the comsumer-end sure is sad. Some years ago when the first RIMMs were out in the stores top-priced along with the also top-priced motherboards and also (allegedly) top performance I went to one of those stores and bought a beautifull set of two 256Mb RIMM's and an also neat motherboard for thm to run on. The result is that at the moment I stil have 2x256Mb of RAM on my €350 motherboard. 

It's a really sad issue that I, by all means, cannot upgrade my computers memory while my dad's computer (an amd duron (yes not even ddr!)) got upgraded recently and has more system memory that I have. 

It's a real shame that people can't buy pc's every 2-3 years like the computer industry demands the consumers to. (note: I do not use my computer to play games, so it all ends to a memory problem anyway you look at todays system requirements for non-gaming needs)