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To: Steve Lee who wrote (44900)	6/18/2000 4:39:00 PM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 93625

Steve, If it is such a tiny percentage, the mem manufacturers have a choice not to use that tiny bit of technology and to make their products a tiny bit differently. My guess is they will choose to pay the royalty instead. As I said yesterday, processor designs use hundreds of programmable control registers. The Rambus patent concerns one control register in DRAM, but there is no other mechanism available to digital designers. Tens of thousands of designs which predate this patent use control registers to set delays, and also for many other purposes. Perhaps Rambus would be paying royalties to those companies? It is hard to put in words how ridiculous this patent is, from an engineering point of view. I suggest you obtain a programmers spec for an Intel processor and count how many pages are devoted to descriptions of programmable control registers. Scumbria