I had a funny realization today about the state of hardware technology startups. I was reading through this nice summarization of DRAM technology and came across a link to "quadbandmemory.com". The technology purportedly interleaves DRAM memory banks transparently to the memory controller. I looked at the date next to the link... which harkened back to the year 2002. I thought, what are the odds that this link works at all? I clicked and a website with asian characters comes up.
This might in fact be the best case for such a hardware technology company, since they were at least able to sell the domain before going under. Researching a bit more, it looks like they may have gotten some licensing revenue before going under, even more good news. Internet Wayback Machine shows they lost the domain some time between April and October 2005, and their last news update was about something in 2004.
Most surprising to me was that I was 99% sure that the company would not still have its domain 11 years later, and I was correct. In fact, it did not even own its domain 3 years later. I'm naturally an optimistic person, but what's more startling to me than my doomsaying, and the level of certainty that I have in it, is how accurate it is :-(
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