[rescue] What is a RIMM?

[nate at portents.com]

> Currently, the RAMBUS technology is pretty much moribund, both because
> no-one wants to touch the technology due to liability and licensing
> issues around the lawsuits, and because DDR (and especially DDR2) offers
> considerably higher memory performance at lower cost.

Not quite... RDRAM has traditionally found a role in game consoles, such
as the PlayStation 2, and now it's successor, XDR, is in the Playstation
3:

http://www.rambus.com/products/xdr/index.aspx

The reason RDRAM and XDR are popular in some consoles is that it uses
fewer pins and fewer physical chips, both advantages in the confined
spaces of consoles.

- Nate