More on Intel-Rambus woes

This really, really good piece on ENEWS has a lot of excellent scoop and analysis on the culture clash and management problems behind the negative Intel-Rambus politics that recently surfaced in the Financial Times article. This piece has quotes from ex-Intel employees on the Rambus situation, and how Intel upper management tried to silence the objections of engineers who looked at the technology two years ago and said it wouldn't be feasible, only to have it forced on them anyway. Here's a little snippet from the article:

"There's been an internal backlash, and anybody that can distance themselves from Rambus has done so," the source said. "Now nobody believes the Intel Architecture Group. Intel had been good at generating rules that designers could use to develop boards. They basically broke that trust by forcing Rambus down the throats of the engineers."

Intel's senior management ignored early warnings from its own engineering staff that Rambus technology would be hard to implement, according to the source. "Requests for information went up the chain and there never would be any response. Two years ago we told them that technically it was a poor proposition at best. But they relied on Rambus for all of the engineering expertise in this area," the former employee said...

It's really an interesting read as it gives another angle on the whole debate and the current, deteriorated situation that I haven't heard from anywhere else.