Mercurycenter heeft een artikel met info over RDRAM en andere ontwikkelingen die momenteel het gebied van RAM geheugens aan de gang zijn en die de komende tijd voor een snelle toename van de geheugensnelheid zullen leiden.
Hier een plak 'nfo dat ik uit het artikel gejat heb:
Next year's computers will run significantly faster, not just because Intel, the world's largest chip manufacturer, plans to deliver faster versions of the Pentium processor, but because PC manufacturers will start to move to a faster type of memory known as RDRam (Rambus Direct Random Access Memory).Rambus of California has been developing RDRam for several years, but the first samples have only just been delivered to PC manufacturers. However, 15 memory manufacturers have signed licenses to produce the chips, including Fujitsu, NEC and Toshiba from Japan, Siemens from Germany, LG Electronics and Samsung from South Korea and IBM. RDRam chips should appear in reasonable volumes in the second half of 1999.
RDRam can provide data at speeds of up to 1.6 gigabytes per second, twice as fast as today's fastest synchronous (SDRam) memory chips. But they won't fit today's motherboards which take DIMMs (dual in-line memory modules -- small cards designed to hold memory chips). Instead, they'll require new circuit boards with slots for Rambus memory modules known as RIMMs.
Intel has supported the development of the Rambus system and took out a license in 1996. Last month Intel also invested $500 million in Micron, an Idaho-based memory chip manufacturer, to ensure an adequate supply of memory components, particularly Direct RDRam. The firm called it an ``investment that supports our microprocessor roadmap into 2000 and beyond.''
Where DIMMs operate at clock speeds of 66MHz or 100MHz, like today's PC motherboards, RIMMs will be able to run at up to 800MHz. This is more important now that processors typically run at 300MHz to 450MHz.
Nou, ik heb m'n sinter nikolaasgedicht al weer in elkaar geknutseld:
De sint zat te denken, wat-ie die gozer van een Femme moest schenken.
Natuurlijk, ik geef 'm een paar SIMMs.
Nee zei Poeter_Piet, want Femme wil DIMMs.
Maar oh! zei de sint: simsalabim,
we geven die harrie een echte RIMM!
Hmm...
Ik had niet gezien dat ie echt 2 jaar oud was...Wrom replied Jasper ook op zo'n oude thread 
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