Discounts at the Rambus

The Rambus manufacturer Kingston Technology wants to give discounts of 75 million dollars on its Rambus in order to encourage small companies to build Pentium 4 systems, which in turn should increase sales of the Rambus, as this is required by the Pentium 4 .

Since the Rambus is considerably more expensive than SDRAM, it is a big risk for smaller companies to rely on the Pentium 4 and Rambus without knowing more about the success of the Pentium 4.