Replies to post #24183 on Advanced Micro Devices Inc (AMD)

[chipguy]

Leaving aside the issue of Rambus as a company the royalty was tiny, on the order of 2 to 3 %

That's highway robbery given that for decades asymmetrical
IP licensing costs in the electronics industry have been
routinely an order of magnitude or more less than that.

[j3pflynn]

confused - royalties of 2-3% are NOT tiny in a market where that percentage of total profit is not unheard of, not to mention downturns when they lose money.
Paul

[sgolds]

confused, I'm sorry that you do not remember the manufacturing problems that plagued RDRAM for quite some time - the problems with heat dissipation, the long delays before product came to market, the early versions which were only able to be produced in the slowest PC533 version. To claim that this was all a conspiracy of DRAM makers is just not accurate. There was one major company which genuinely tried to jump on the RDRAM wagon (Samsung, I believe) but still could not manufacture the product before DDR overtook it.

Superior to DDR? Only if you ignore the manufacturing difficulties and the huge latency problems (inherent to the fundamental design).

I'm glad you generally like the quality of my posts. I stand behind everything I posted in that one, also.

That includes the Itanium manufacturing comments - the large die size and large number of transistors does cause the product to be more difficult to manufacture. Why do you think Intel won't put the product on newer process, preferring to fab it on older, better tuned process?