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To: Scumbria who wrote (99717)	3/24/2000 1:41:00 AM
From: Charles R	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 1571405

Scumbria, <What do you make of the Rambus/Hitachi lawsuit? It seems to me that it could have serious implications for the T-Bird memory controller.> As far as AMD is concerned, I don't see much downside unless RMBS can get a stop ship on DDR chips from everybody - an unlikely situation since even Intel needs DDR for servers. This is a very aggressive approach by Rambus. At the end of the day, this has more to do with Rambus's future than anything else. They have an uphill task ahead of them in winning this lawsuit. Chuck

To: Scumbria who wrote (99717)	3/24/2000 4:41:00 AM
From: Petz	Respond to of 1571405

Scumbria, re:<What do you make of the Rambus/Hitachi lawsuit?> Sheesh! Rambus now claims they invented clocking data on both edges? Petz

To: Scumbria who wrote (99717)	3/31/2000 4:17:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 1571405

Scumbria, on the Rambus patent suit, there was a bit on the Register about a counterfiling a couple days ago: Hitachi's antitrust case against Rambus theregister.co.uk I won't comment on this directly, there's so much bogosity in the patent system in general these days. Somehow, though, I very much doubt Rambus would have the nerve to try and pull this crap without Intel muscle behind them. It would sure be nice to see them both go down together on this one. Cheers, Dan.