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One possible future successor to SDRAM, and competitor to DDR SDRAM. DRDRAM (also now simply called RDRAM) was originally developed by Rambus, Inc. This RAM architecture is capable of speeds starting at 266, 356, and 400MHz, and transfers data on the up and down ticks of a clock cycle, where standard SDRAM tops out at about 200MHz. You may see RDRAM referred to at 532, 712, and 800MHz, but that is actually 266*2, 356*2,
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DRDRAM - NEW YORK, Nov 4 (Reuters) - Hughes Electronics Corp., (NYSE:GMH),owner of satellite broadcaster DirecTV, said it plans to reconfigurenew satellites that had been intended for high-speed data transmissionto provide additional bandwidth for advanced television services.The shift in strategy, on the eve of the planned takeover of Hughes byNews Corp. Ltd. (AUS:NCP) at the end of the year, shows that DirecTVis focusing on offering next-generation television services likeproviding local television channels in high-definition format ratherthan on consumer Internet access.The satellites to be reconfigured are part of Hughes' $1.5 billionSpaceway project and were intended to provide broadband data servicesfor businesses and consumers.But in comments made to the SkyForum satellite industry conferencelast week, and first reported in the Wall Street Journal, DirecTVchairman and CEO Eddy Hartenstein said Hughes is looking at ways touse part of the Spaceway satellites' capacity "to fill a big need forDirecTV."A DirecTV spokesman declined to elaborate but said that the potentialuse of Spaceway capacity for DirecTV broadcasts was disclosed in anSEC filing at the beginning of the year.- http://finance.lycos.com/home/news/story.asp?story=36361799
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