Ondanks het feit dat er ten opzichte van simpel DDR SDRAM amper een voordeel te vinden is voor het veel complexere Rambus, is onderzoeksbureau Dataquest van mening dat de RIMMen een glorieuze toekomst tegemoet gaan. Volgens Dataquest zijn de huidige geheugentechnologiën in de nabije toekomst niet meer geschikt voor toepassingen waarbij veel bandbreedte nodig is. Tel daarbij het verplichte huwelijk van Willy + Rambus en Dataquest komt tot de verwachting dat tegen het eind van volgend jaar 50% van de desktops met RDRAM worden geleverd:
The future for Rambus memory in PCs is bright, a senior analyst at Dataquest forecast today. Richard Gordon, at Dataquest said that last year the future of Rambus was unclear because of conflicting messages sent out by market leaders. "Intel left the whole market in limbo," he said. But now Intel has made its position clear on Rambus, partly because existing memory technology will run out of steam."We'll see a fairly rapid move from 1GHz to 1.5GHz by the end of next year," said Gordon. "In that time frame, current memory technology will run out of speed at 1.2GHz."
He said there were also signs that large memory manufacturers were now convinced they had to take the Rambus route. "Hyundai has done a 180 degree turn on DDR (double data rate) memory," he said. "They've said they are backing Rambus."
Gordon said Dataquest estimated that Rambus memories could occupy as many as 50 per cent of corporate desktops by the end of next year, although that figure could be higher.
Check dit artikel van The Register voor het complete verhaaltje (thanks insane voor de tip).