rambus ram had lots of banks, theoretically it was much much faster, but Intel needed to change it's CPU<->north bridge protocol to handle those out of order tr

rambus ram had lots of banks, theoretically it was much much faster, but Intel needed to change it's CPU<->north bridge protocol to handle those out of order transactions (new CPUs, new north bridges, new sockets, new mother boards ....) and that didn't happen so rambus's expected performance boost was a bust