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To: ptanner who wrote (98910)	3/18/2000 8:29:00 AM
From: Bill Jackson	Respond to of 1579924

PT, OT I am not sure just how high they are.I saw 5% mentioned somewhere and that would end up as 1-3% of the final system...more for the P-2 series as they are just CPU+RDRAM+Chipset. If Rambus is too high in price the 5% royalty is not the problem. They are a monopoly and on an $800 stick they can save money faster by better fabtech so they can sell them for $200 and that will cut the royalty to $10, hardly a king's ransom. As to Apple they faced an adoption problem and also a workaround problem as there were other ways to make fast serial data paths and a high riyalty would make many take another road. Rambus with it's high price already has all the other pathways into fast development mode and they are doing so well that there may not be as big a market as Rambus dreams of. The Ps-2...? Sony may have a special deal Bill