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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin

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To: Scumbria who wrote (54005)	9/19/2000 10:41:24 AM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (1) of 93625

Scumbria, Do you think that Hitachi or Intel or AMD or any other microprocessor manufacturer should or would pay Rambus royalties for microprocessors? The snowball effect of standardizing on a patented technology is that in the end the entire chain could be tapped for royalties. They're all potentially using Rambus-patented technology in their products so yes they should (unless they have something that Rambus wants more than money and is willing to trade off). Why should they get a free pass? As for what royalty rate should they pay, I have no idea. I don't know what the law allows in terms of trying to balance the % that the IP represents of the "total product". I'm not certain that that's even factored in from a legal point of view (any lawyers have any feedback?). Your "die area %" measurement makes some sense to me, but I don't think that that's what they're using for the yardstick for microcontrollers currently. Dave

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