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To: chic_hearne who wrote (117698)	6/26/2000 3:18:00 PM
From: AK2004	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1577893

Thank you everyone again for the warm welcome. I am not a lawyer but my understanding is that sec power does extend outside of US. Market manipulations of the sort when intel gives 200M worth of free chips to toshiba in return for toshibas paying 100M to rambus are definitely illegal. Intel does do illegal stuff all the time (look at dec) so the question is if it is inforcable and I doubt it is. Now micron may be a different story ......... intel as a private company and as such it acts in the interests of shareholders. Loosing 5B stake in Rambus would not be in the best interests of shareholders and as such I would be surprised if intel would not take actions to protect their investment.

To: chic_hearne who wrote (117698)	6/26/2000 6:00:00 PM
From: milo_morai	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1577893

OT:Plot twist: Hitachi deal short-lived: semibiznews.com Hitachi to pay extra memory royalties to Rambus until joint venture starts with NEC By Jack Robertson Semiconductor Business News (06/26/00, 02:55:42 PM EDT) MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. -- Hitachi Ltd.'s settlement of a patent dispute with Rambus Inc. requires the Japanese chip maker to pay royalties on fast synchronous DRAMs and double data rate (DDR) memories only through the end of this year. After Dec. 31, the marketing of those devices will be shifted to a new joint venture with NEC Corp., called NEC Hitachi Memories Inc. Last week's licensing agreement between Hitachi and Rambus will not cover memories sold by the joint venture, said Avo Kanadjian, vice president of worldwide marketing at Rambus in Mountain View. "It covers the transition period, before the NEC and Hitachi joint DRAM venture becomes effective," he added. Hitachi and Rambus made headlines last week when they announced a new licensing agreement to cover SDRAMs, DDR DRAMs and controllers interfacing to those memories. In settling patent lawsuits in the U.S. and Germany, Hitachi agreed to license Rambus patents for high-speed interfaces on SDRAMs, DDR memories and controllers (see June 22 story). Rambus maintains that its interface patents apply to high-speed SDRAMs and DDR memories, in addition to its own Rambus DRAM architecture. The company expects to strike expanded licensing pacts for more royalties from other DRAM makers (see June 23 story). Semiconductor analyst Bob Merritt of Semico Research Inc. raised questions about Hitachi's payment of SDRAM royalties after the start of its joint venture with NEC. The Redwood City, Calif.-based analyst was correct, but Rambus' Kanadjian said Hitachi will continue to pay royalties for controller logic interfaces on its Super H-series of microprocessors because these MPUs connect directly to the high-speed memories. Hitachi SDRAMs and DDR memories, however, will fall outside of new licensing pact once the NEC joint venture begins to sell those parts in 2001, he confirmed.