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To: tejek who wrote (84208)12/27/1999 9:12:00 PM
From: Dan3  Read Replies (1) | Respond to of 1574491
 
Re: I am unclear how you see intc usurping the RMBS....

He said revenue model, not patents. Intel wants to tax memory sales by requiring all memory manufacturers to pay a license fee to Intel and its partners - that was the rambus model.

If they can maintain a monopoly on CPUs, they can easily do this by patenting the protocols their chips use to talk to memory, then licensing that protocol thereby taxing memory sales. Next could be disk I/O, followed by graphics.

If AMD weren't around, it would be easy. As it is, it's going to be tricky for them.

Dan



To: tejek who wrote (84208)12/28/1999 1:34:00 AM
From: Petz  Respond to of 1574491
 
ted, re:<unclear how you see intc usurping the RMBS technology....the patents are protected>

The "next generation memory technology" to be developed by the consortium may not be RAMBUS at all (closer to DDR), or they may come up with some other way to reduce the pin count like RDRAM but without infringing RAMBUS' patents.

Or, pin count may cease to be an issue
Or, the consortium may negotiate much lower licensing fees than each individual producer could.

Petz


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