Intel no longer banding with Rambus?

Intel just confirmed that RDRAM from Rambus is being phased out in favor of DDR-SDRAM.

"Analysts said this is the winding down of Rambus at Intel, although RDRAM will continue to be supported in the niche Intel market. It marks the final chapter of Rambus' once dominant partnership with Intel, which tried but failed to dictate RDRAM as the next generation PC main memory."

Read it here.

woh

but isnt rambus faster?