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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin
RMBS 119.54-4.0%3:12 PM EST

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To: jim kelley who wrote (64161)1/11/2001 5:47:54 PM
From: Barry Grossman  Read Replies (1) of 93625
 
Here's my quick and dirty conference call notes:

Harmon:

summary and analysis of the results for the quarter

We are now at a $140M annual run rate on revs
1yr ago cont rev 78% of total
current is now 77% royalties

royalties are from RDRAM and SDRAM produced by DRAM liscensees
included are for the 1st time are sdram ROYALTIES FROM Samsung and Mitsubishi

Contract revs went from 7.9M vs 7M

1.5M recognized from cancellation of a contract

op expenses only inreased 19%
57% op margin for the q

in the q exp shifted to r&d from cost of revs
expenses: 60% r&D 40% cost of revs
litigation exp is driving the administration exp and in 1st q they will rise because several will go to trial and increase this expense i the next q

Earned .12/sh diluted even after changing the tax rate and 220k of acquisition related costs

Woul;d have been +.01 if no change in tax rate

Cash bal inc by 12M to 144M in cash

Tate: Re current state of rambus business

Established as most profitable in the semi area
"RDRAM has become the mainstream standard"
150 systems now contain RDRAMof which 130 are pc systems now

Significant progress has been made and is being made in other areas
eg the Sony PS2 & RDRAM digital tvs & set-top boxes introduced in Japan

Increased production of RDRAM is happening because of P4 and 850 chipset.
"We are seeing a strong ramp"

Elpida also signed this q - Now 7 liscensees are paying royalties and they have
45% share of w/w dram mkt and are the largest logic producers.

In the current actions we brought several are scehduled for trial this q:

Infineon in VA - 3/13 jury trial scheduled
Infineaon in Germany was set for Dec 00 but now trial is set for 5/01 with new judge

Hyundai and Mu both sued RMBS
Hyundai was countersued by Rambus and set for a 2/16 trial in Germany

MU Delaware trial in October
MU countersued by RMBS and German trial set for same day as Hyundai trial in the same court

In our opinion there has been nothing in any of these actions that ...yadda yadda yadda
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