Rambus reality, finally

摘要

After three years of media scrutiny and water-cooler debate rivaling that of Monicagate (at least in the electronics community), the first Rambus-equipped PCs will soon be rolling out PC OEMs' doors. Intel's i820 chip set, code-named Camino, and matching 133-MHz local-bus Pentium Ⅲ processors are now available for sampling and will enter production during the fourth quarter. Internally, the CPUs run at 600 and 533 MHz, comparable with Pentium IIIs already in production. However, the increased local-bus bandwidth relieves I/O bottlenecks in today's high-end multimedia applications and provides head room for future, faster Pentium IIIs. (Don't look for significant improvements to Solitaire, however.)