by Anna Filatova
01/28/2002 | 11:54 PM
The story of the public RDRAM memory overclocking by Rambus Company continues. Samsung (and who else could that be except the No. 1 RDRAM manufacturer!) officially announced that they started manufacturing the engineering samples of the new RDRAM chips: PC1066 and PC1200. They stressed that these chips are produced on common lines now manufacturing PC800 RDRAM, and that the yields of PC1066 and PC1200 chips are quite high (though we should be speaking about the RIMM modules here, since the final testing of the chips meeting the end specs takes place only when the chips and the heatsink are already installed onto the module.
As for the price of the new fast chips as well as RIMM modules based on them, there is no info on that so far. And who will ever need them, if Rambus doesn’t officially support these RDRAM standards yet.