Rambus - Technology for the future or just more fraud?

A recent article written by Michael Kanellos for CNET.com say’s that both Sony and Toshiba recently secured licenses from rambus that should secure them to make faster more advanced versions of the Play Station in the future. What Sony and Toshiba have secured is the right to use Rambus’s high speed chip to chip technologies. This means a Play Station using this technology could theoretically be capable of executing one trillion operations per second so long as the processors behind the infrastructure are capable of keeping up. The same CNET article points out that these new technologies would be equitable to the power of 100 2.5 GHz p4 desktops.

So what’s this mean to Joe Shmow the bastard operator from Redmond? It means the technology is available to drastically jump current desktop speeds 100 fold over. For any good futurist this means we’re about to hit hyper space as far as microprocessor speed. Even though these Companies who going to use these new technologies are planning on deploying them for the set top gamming boxes you can be sure the PC/Server industry is paying close attention. Their aren’t that many degrees of separation between the two industries; the computer based Microsoft Xbox weighs heavily in the gaming industry but as every one knows Microsoft primary target is the computer. The only piece of the puzzle that’s missing is a microprocessor capable of executing at such speeds. Once Intel, AMD, Cyrix (blah), or Transmeta develop a worthy processor everything will change.