skeeter, earlie & all,
Just noticed the "cool post", and had to second your points & earlie's. Rambus is quite a phenomena, and by all indications, quite a scam. As earlie responded, as a business it doesn't particularly make sense at this point, since the people they rely on to build their so-called product now totally hate them. They (the memory makers) probably hated them enough before this patent nonsense started up, for the obvious technical reasons that Rambus memory is apparently difficult to fabricate and provides no useful performance gains. Now that the money for nothing hardball game is on in earnest, you can imagine how happy all the memory guys are to see the Rambus flacks come calling. I'd imagine there is absolutely zero technical interchange between Rambus and any influential memory maker at this point. Various Rambus flacks make out like drdram is somehow going to win in the marketplace after this, which I find truly humorous.
Which is, of course, not to say that RMBS is necessarily a bad investment. Stupid patents have been upheld before, the system is seriously out of whack at this point. It was disappointing to see Hitachi fold. There were some stories that Hitachi is trying to sell off its memory business anyway, which may have had something to do with it.
I hope, for the sake of the IT industry and computer users in general, that this stuff gets resolved quickly, and I hope that for the economic benefit of everybody but RMBS holders, Rambus doesn't win. I don't handicap legal issues, though. All I know is that among engineers and geeks, Rambus is becoming more of a dirty word all the time.
Cheers, Dan. |
