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To: Dave B who wrote (29399)	9/13/1999 12:52:00 AM
From: pompsander	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Dave, the only answer which will satisfy the bears is for Rambus to be FREE!..and for Rambus to waive its royalties, which it would do if RDRAM was FREE! Maybe Rambus could throw in a toaster for each chip sold.

To: Dave B who wrote (29399)	9/13/1999 5:17:00 AM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 93625

Hi Dave B; LOL! -- Carl

To: Dave B who wrote (29399)	9/13/1999 8:22:00 PM
From: Dan3	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

What Price? You have to be able to discriminate between high/low costs, and high/low price. For a product to be a success, you need a low cost, and a high price - this allows you a profit. Rambus needs to get the memory manufacturers to switch over to producing it, instead of the present SDRAM. It's expensive for them to do so, but some have been planning to do so anyway, because prices for SDRAM have been too low for them to make a profit. Now SDRAM prices are up, but SDRAM costs are still low - so manufacturers can make lots of money with SDRAM, and therefore cannot be expected to switch over to rambus as quickly as before, if they will do it at all. If rambus prices and SDRAM prices are the same, but SDRAM costs continue to stay at about half that of rambus, no one will bother manufacturing rambus, unless the price of rambus goes even higher than it is now. Dan