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To: Road Walker who wrote (87979)	1/18/2000 9:06:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Respond to of 1574678

John - RE: "I'm was not endorsing the action, just posting information, without comment." And I was just commenting on the article.. "IF, BIG IF, the courts were to find in Rambus favor, and IF their patents were wide enough to limit competition, it could be very interesting." Yeah, especially since they could go after Samsung, Micron, Infineon, IBM, and - GASP! - Intel, according to this article: news.cnet.com Seems the patent laws are on their side. I bet they knew of this when they licensed this technology to these companies. They are now executing "Plan B"! AMD has also licensed their technology, but they didn't do so until late 1998. From that News.com article: "We believe we have some fundamental synchronous memory technology intellectual property," said Avo Kanadjian vice president of worldwide marketing for Rambus. "We are talking to a number of companies." Kanadjian declined to identify any of the companies. "We are in discussions, and we do prefer settlement." RamBUST exec's talk - "We'll take that settlement money paid over a few years each quarter such that it is at least 60% higher than than the previous year. We gotta show increasing earnings somehow."