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To: Windsock who wrote (120677)	7/21/2000 1:02:51 AM
From: Paul Engel	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1572604

Windsock - Re: "The Rambus business model: It follows the business model of Dolby sound." Absolutely SUPERB analogy !!! The AMDroids are all bent out of shape because AMD has generated thousands of useless patents that generate ZIPPO income in licensing fees. As usual, the AMDroids assume that any company besides AMD that generates profits does it illegally. Paul

To: Windsock who wrote (120677)	7/21/2000 1:51:27 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572604

Windsock, The Rambus model is very different from Dolby. Dolby has a successful technology, which has become the industry standard. In contrast, Rambus' product (DRDRAM) is performing very poorly in the marketplace, so Rambus has instead decided to hold the SDRAM industry hostage with a couple of very broad, obvious patents that probably never should have been granted. As the legal battles proceed, I think this will become more clear. Rambus percentage of meaningful SDRAM IP is probably about 0.01%. Scumbria