Why doesn't Rambus Inc. recruit like this?

Way cool . . .



HT blogan Donkey's brother & INTC employee (who does not speak for INTC)

It is true - Rambus & Intel

. . . but they only admit to talking.

Why would Intel admit that?

Folsom, an Intel Town, has no shortage of those with opinions about Rambus Inc. Not even a shortage of those willing to share them with Any Donkey without stating "you can't blog about this, please!"

Here are some - in no particular order . . .

Hughes is calling in a marker.

Intel is actually interested and wants to see what reaction the release generates.

Intel is actually interested and Rambus requires a PR in exchange for in-depth technology review.

Intel is using Rambus - to confuse AMD, annoy MU, test the waters.

Intel is doing something similar to Rambus and Rambus has threatened Intel, who acquiesces and agrees to look at technology and press release.

Rimtel rides again.

Rambus Inc. press release.

X-bit labs spin.

Channel Register.

Test your Rambus Inc. knowledge

Can you find the list of directors of Rambus Inc. at Rambus.com ?

How many clicks before you find your answer? It isn't intuitive.

Keep looking. Not where you would expect?

It took me four clicks at Intel.com to find the biographies of the Intel executives and board of directors - each click made sense.

Update: Yes, from the Intel link above, you can find the information in three clicks.

Rambus Inc. at IDF

On September 18-20, 2007, Rambus Inc. will be pimping in San Francisco at the Intel Developer Forum:

XDR memory architecture, a differential memory system solution with performance ranging from 3.2 to 8.0GHz. Technology demonstration running at 3.2GHz with FlexPhase™ circuit technology and Octal Data Rate (ODR) operation.

DDR technology performing memory transactions to and from a DDR2 device operating at 800Mbps (400MHz clock).

Low power signaling technology operating at 6.25 Gbps with a power-performance metric of 2.2 mW/Gbps.

A PLAYSTATION®3 (PS3™) open demo board, featuring the XDR memory architecture. The Rambus XDR memory interface and FlexIO™ processor bus on the Cell Broadband Engine™ enable an unprecedented aggregate bandwidth of over 65GB/s in the PS3.

TI DLP® projector open demo board, featuring the XDR memory architecture. This architecture, including XDR DRAM, XDR memory controller (XMC), XDR IO cell (XIO), and XDR clock generator (XCG), delivers memory bandwidth up to 8.0 GB/s in the latest generation of HD front projectors.

Press release

Harold Hughes was right

I have been exploring Google Finance Beta. It is fun to compare the share prices of stocks on a chart and it is an easy tool to use. I plugged in RMBS, MU, INTC and COKE. Yikes!

Charting one year - April 17, 2006 through April 16, 2007 - is well, depressing.

RMBS down 52%

MU down 26%

INTC up 6%

COKE up 29%

It's not May 10, 2007, yet - but it is pretty close to the one year anniversary of CEO Harold Hughes' suggestion that Ramboids buy Coke.

Intel, making Rambus Inc. feel better

Misery and embarrassment loves company.

Rambus Inc., infamous for shredding parties, with pizza and beer, (Coca Cola came later in the Hughes era) and years into litigation "discovering" back-up tapes.

Here comes Intel, fully in the mud with AMD as a result of AMD alleging Intel engaged in antitrust violations. Now Intel admits its document retention leaves much to be desired.

Forbes reports:

In a letter to the judge overseeing the case, Intel admitted Monday to a number of document retention "lapses."

For example, some of the Intel employees asked by the company to retain their e-mail after AMD filed its suit failed to move electronic messages from their 'sent box' to their hard drive, where they would have been preserved, Intel's lawyers wrote in the letter.

Other employees thought Intel's information technology group would automatically save their e-mail. Still others were not notified that they were obliged to preserve their messages.

"Everything that could have gone wrong did go wrong," AMD wrote in a court filing responding to Intel's disclosure.

That laughter you hear, Ramboids.

High-k metal gate transistors

IBM & Intel press forward with "high-k metal gate" transistors made of designer metals intended to reduce the electrical leakage and heat in chips.

IBM used Blue Gene/L supercomputer to crunch and model, claiming that if had used a typical notebook PC, the 250-day job would have taken them 700 years. IBM plans to build chips with the new mixture in 2008.

Intel must have a bunch of smart engineers with sharp pencils because they claim to be coming to market with Penryn chips and its own type of "high-k metal gate" transistors spun off its 45-nm process in the second half of 2007.

Read more at TechWorld.

HT Pinehurst Joe.

AMD going down or up?

AMD needs cash. AMD needs to freshen its product line-up. AMD needs Michael Dell in retirement. AMD lost nearly $600 million in Q4 '06.

Intel needs AMD alive and well.

EETimes reports that AMD is rumored to be sniffing about for a private-equity buyout.

Intel needs AMD alive and well.

Andy Grove, does he mention his Rambus Inc. friends?

With any luck, Andy will be under my Christmas tree.

Forbes reports:

At 70, Grove is still wiry and hip enough to sport a black leather bomber jacket, even though his hands tremble slightly due to Parkinson’s disease.

IBM to cash in on its chips

While Intel and AMD focused on a perceived need for speed, IBM followed an path of multi-core design and partnerships. IBM chips are in Wii, Xbox 360 and Sony Playstation 3 and it hopes to parley its recent success into billions of dollars over the next decade. Part of IBM's hope hinges on the Cell processor.

"From a technological perspective, we still have a tremendous amount of upside," said Bernie Meyerson, chief technologist for IBM's systems group. "We've only gone down this road one turn."

IBM is working with other companies, such as Mercury Computing Systems Inc., to adapt Cell and other chips for their own new devices. Cell powers a line of IBM servers and is being used in a supercomputer for the Los Alamos nuclear lab. Toshiba plans to use the chip in TVs.

However, even with Cell's performance boosts, it could have limited paths into other systems unless IBM can encourage many software developers to create applications that take advantage of Cell's unusual architecture.

Read an interesting article about IBM linked here at the Baltimore Sun.