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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin

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To: richard surckla who wrote (50063)	8/16/2000 10:17:41 PM
From: Pluvia	Read Replies (3) of 93625

dick... Your article states DDR technology was "stolen" from RMBS... Is this then a flat lie? www6.tomshardware.com ADT members are basing their case around Hitachi's arguments. The case is complicated and worthy of an extensive article on its own, but, we will try to explain the core argument briefly. Rambus served on the JEDEC committee drafting standards for SDRAM. While serving in that capacity Rambus failed to disclose patents it had filed for before this time that were relevant to the very SDRAM technology being drafted. This would violate its JEDEC agreement to participate in the role of establishing open SDRAM design standards, as the technology in these patents were incorporated into SDRAM designs passed by the committee. Rambus also allegedly patented critical SDRAM designs while serving on the JEDEC SDRAM standards committee without notifying its fellow JEDEC participants of these actions. In 1996 the FTC ruled against Dell that the computer maker could not collect licensing fees on patents developed under an open standards organization that it participated in. About a month later, with this news still fresh, Rambus withdrew from JEDEC, further bringing into question the memory designer's motivations for participating in JEDEC. dick you got some slain'n to do...

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