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To: Barry Grossman who wrote (104437)	6/14/2000 7:35:00 AM
From: Road Walker	Respond to of 186894

Barry, Itanium / Linux It sure sounds like Intel has all it's ducks in a row for the Itanium release. It's been a massive effort setting the stage for IA64. The other day, one of the AMD folks posted that AMD had taken the technology lead from Intel. I doubt that AMD could/would have expended the effort to bring all the different factions together to make this new product release possible. Yet some day in the future AMD will release a product that will profit from Intel's efforts. I guess that is what leading and following is all about. John

To: Barry Grossman who wrote (104437)	6/16/2000 8:10:00 AM
From: Road Walker	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 186894

OT- Thursday June 15, 10:00 pm Eastern Time Company Press Release Toshiba Signs Patent License Agreement With Rambus for SDRAM & DDR SDRAM Memory and Controllers. MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--June 15, 2000--Toshiba Corporation and Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq:RMBS - news) today signed a new patent license agreement for SDRAM, Double Data Rate (DDR) SDRAM, DDR FCRAM memory and Controllers that directly interface with these types of memory. Toshiba has been developing, manufacturing and selling Rambus compatible IC's since 1990. The new agreement covers patents for fundamental aspects of high-speed memory interfaces invented by Rambus, which are currently being implemented in SDRAM, DDR SDRAM and DDR FCRAM memory and controllers which directly interface with these types of memory. Under the licensing agreement, the royalty rates for DDR SDRAM and the controllers, which directly interface with DDR SDRAM, are greater than the RDRAM compatible rates. The agreement also includes royalties for SDRAM and for controllers that directly interface with SDRAM, as well as a license fee for the entire agreement. ``This agreement ensures that Toshiba has rights to these important Rambus patents which are necessary to continue providing our customers with their choice of memory and logic products '' said Yasuo Morimoto, president and CEO, Toshiba Corporation Semiconductor Company. ``Toshiba will continue to be a leader in providing RDRAMs and Rambus-compatible logic products.'' ``We have had a long and mutually beneficial relationship with Toshiba. Rambus develops and licenses IP -- our objective is to produce innovations that will benefit the semiconductor and systems industries, and by licensing these innovations to generate a return on investment to our shareholders.'' said Geoff Tate, Rambus' chief executive officer. ``We believe our Rambus memory interface is the best solution for the majority of the market. Developing and marketing the Rambus memory interface has been and remains our top priority. But we are willing to license our IP for other memory interface solutions as well.'' Rambus Inc. is an intellectual property company that designs, develops and licenses high-bandwidth chip-connection technologies which enable semiconductor memory devices to keep pace with faster generations of processors and controllers. To date, these efforts have resulted in more than 95 U.S. and foreign patents issued to Rambus. Rambus has licensed its technology to over 30 semiconductor companies for the development, manufacture and sale of Rambus-compatible ICs. Providers of Rambus-based integrated circuits include the world's leading DRAM, ASIC, controller and microprocessor manufacturers. There are more than 60 Rambus based systems shipping today, including Dell, Compaq, Hewlett-Packard, and IBM PCs and workstations and the Sony PlayStation© 2 video game system. More information on Rambus Inc. and its high bandwidth technologies is available at rambus.com Note to Editors: Rambus and RDRAM are registered trademarks of Rambus Inc.