The vast majority of the time your posts show a very balanced view. This response ignores several things or takes allegations that have no solid basis and acts as if they are true.
RDRAM was a superior technology to DDR and it was the failure to get an honest committment from the ram manufacturers that created to cost problem. They despised having to pay a royalty to Rambus. Leaving aside the issue of Rambus as a company the royalty was tiny, on the order of 2 to 3 % but it appears that lately the courts have been deciding in Rambus favor and the dram manufacturers may well have to pay some very large compensation to Rambus. I am not a Rambus fan, in fact I have no real interest in them one way or the other, but the legal consensus gives the appearance that the dram manufacturers coluded (spelling?) against the success of RDRAM.
The issue is Itanium's die size is a non starter and is only mentioned by people with a bias against Intel. It is a non issue .
I generally learn from reading your posts but this sounds like a party line from the crowd that cannot get it straight that AMD can do a good job without it meaning the Intel is screwing up.
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