The laptop comes with 64M bytes of SDRAM (Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory) and Microsoft's Windows NT 4.0 operating system preinstalled.
We test each drive with a Micron 433-MHz Celeron system equipped with 64MB of SDRAM, a 10GB hard disk, and a DVD-ROM drive.
Rambus, which had counted on a surge in royalties from the Pentium 4 launch, is now going after other royalties on both SDRAM and DDR.
Rambus originally sued Infineon claiming patent infringement on two kinds of PC memory: SDRAM, which is commonly used, and DDR, a newly developed type of memory.
Rambus claims Infineon is violating its patents on two kinds of computer memory, known as synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM), and Double-Data Rate DRAM (DDR).
The 90nm chips include 2MB of L2 cache, consume no more than 125W of power, and can support 800MHz DDR2 SDRAM, all based on AMD's Socket F workstation infrastructure.
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But so will the addition of one megabyte of level 3 cache, as well as the Double Data Rate SDRAM memory with a 133-MHz system cache standard on all models.
But memory manufacturers have balked at having to make bigger, more expensive Rambus DRAM (RDRAM) chips when their existing lines of SDRAM were beginning to turn profitable after an industrywide downturn.
Fearing a botched launch for Pentium 4 because of insufficient supplies of RDRAM, Intel has conceded in recent weeks that it will use other memory technologies like conventional SDRAM and possibly DDR as a memory option with Pentium 4.
Should RDRAM never gain the wide acceptance the company had hoped for, Rambus' patent claims are an attempt to ensure the company gets a piece of the action through royalty payments, no matter what type of memory takes hold, whether SDRAM, DDR or its preferred RDRAM.
EMachines' bottom-of-the-heap machine comes with a 1.1 gigaherz Intel (nasdaq: INTC - news - people ) Celeron processor, 128 megabytes of SDRAM, a 20-gigabyte hard drive and a line of Microsoft (nyse: MSFT - news - people ) software already installed.
The little 14-inch Chromebook runs Google's eponymous OS with an Intel Celeron 847 CPU clocked at 1.1GHz, an Intel HD GPU, 2GB of DDR3 SDRAM (expandable up to 4GB), and 16GB of SSD storage space, put to use on the 14-inch HD BrightView LED-backlit display (1366 x 768 resolution).
The precious little 4.3-inch Windows CE 5.0 (the photo shows XP but whatever) clamshell's got a 533MHz Samsung 2442A CPU, 128MB of SDRAM, between 1GB and 4GB of flash memory, and a USB 2.0 port on top of a host of optional features (GPS, DVB-T digital TV, WiFi, the ability to tell you the future).
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