Although it has had a lot of press, anyone who has been involved with computers knows that this doesn't really mean anything, as vaporware has always been around. But now we actually get to see it used as the primary RAM in computers, so it is our duty as consumers to know the beef about this.
Lets start from the top.
Not only is Double Data Rate Synchronous Dynamic Random Access Memory a heck of a long name for something, its annoying to type. Now that we've established that, we can move on. Rambus DRAM was seen by most, myself included, as the future. This was caused by the continuing trend that when Intel speaks, everybody listens. Then we forgot about it.