Corsair Technology Interview @ Hardware Hell

Hardware Hell has a new intereview with John Beekley of Corsair, who is the VP of New Product Development.

1) XDR. Currently this is only a viable type of memory for UMA environments such as game consoles, and RAMBUS may never be able to bring this memory to the PC, but how do you view this new type of memory in relation to how it will affect your markets in the coming years and what you do about it right now?

XDR is a very interesting technology, and I think it has a good chance of being used in many applications down the road. However, I will be surprised if it is ever employed in PC desktops, laptops, or servers. I think the PC market is not likely to embrace a memory standard where significant royalties are required unless the benefits are truly compelling, compelling to the extent that no standard technology will provide adequate performance. And right now, both Intel and AMD are very clearly designing their future architectures for emerging standard technologies such as DDR2, DDR3, and fully buffered DIMM. So, we are keeping an eye on XDR, but not much more than that.

Check out the full interview at Hardware Hell.