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Intel is currently dragging a well-known company by the name of Rambus behind them. Most readers are familiar with the fact that the new Intel Pentium 4 is currently only available with dual-channel PC800 RDRAM that is the brainchild of Rambus, Inc. At this point all Pentium 4 systems will be based on the RDRAM memory subsystem, which is bad news for the end user. RDRAM has significantly dropped in price within the past eight months - if you remember; there was a time when a stick of 128MB PC800 RDRAM cost up to $1200! Fortunately, it's no where near that expensive today, albeit still more expensive than SDRAM.

AMD is comfortably enjoying the fact that they are the only platform that supports DDR SDRAM for the time being. SDRAM is currently their key to success with value chipset configurations, while the newer DDR chipsets provide higher performance and the latest technology to the high-end market. DDR SDRAM should be widely available very soon, but we don't expect it to be very cheap, on par with CAS2 PC150 SDRAM prices at best. Eventually, it will reach virtual price parity with SDR SDRAM, but there's no telling how long that will be at the moment.