[luau] processor opinion

[Warren Togami]

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From: "Warren Togami" <warren at togami.com>
To: <luau at videl.ics.hawaii.edu>
Sent: Sunday, July 28, 2002 11:34 AM
Subject: Re: [luau] processor opinion


>
> With SMP machines there are currently only two options: Athlon MP vs Xeon
> While it is true that you will have slightly more performance with the
> fastest Xeon's, you pay far more.  The price/performance ratio of dual
> Athlon MP is a much greater value.
>

I forgot to mention that in buying Xeon, you also buy RDRAM which is more
expensive than DDR SDRAM.  Also in buying RDRAM, the manufacturer pays
royalties for to Rambus, a company that has used deceptive business
practices in participating in the JEDEC standards meeting, but later
claiming that they own the patents on the SDRAM technology that became an
industry standard from that group.  They sued and successfully extracted
royalties on SDRAM from some companies like Toshiba IIRC.  They were
counter-sued by some companies like Infineon and Micron (Crucial), and are
facing anti-trust investigation.

In buying SDRAM, you reject deceptive business practices and support fair
market competition while paying less for your memory.  Win-win situation to
me.