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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Elmer who wrote (117262)	6/22/2000 9:16:00 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Respond to of 1570331

It's all Intel's fault, Elmer. The bits that supposedly cover SDRAM are tiny pieces of a big picture; if every equivalent bit commanded the Rambus rate, memory would cost about what it did with magnetic core. Hope you guys are all happy for dumping this one on the industry. Cheers, Dan

To: Elmer who wrote (117262)	6/22/2000 11:51:00 PM
From: Cirruslvr	Read Replies (4) \| Respond to of 1570331

Elmer - RE: "Did it ever occur to anybody here that RMBS may have a valid patent? I don't like it any more than anyone else but I don't think these big memory companies would just roll over for no reason. Make fun of it if you want but IP is patentable and if valid, RMBS is entitled to royalties." Sure, the patent might be (is?) valid. I just don't understand why all of a sudden they are going after SDRAM. Wasn't SDRAM designed before DRDRAM? So shouldn't they have known SDRAM was their IP and received royalties many years ago, before DRDRAM hit the market? I know you don't have these answers. It's just that the timing of everything seems sketchy. What am I missing? If they bent Toshiba's and Hitachi's arm, I bet they have a very valid claim. But why go after it now rather than before?????????????????????