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To: semiconeng who wrote (120683)	7/22/2000 1:55:18 AM
From: Ali Chen	Respond to of 1572631

SemiconEng, <NOBODY was beating a path to his door for the original Dolby Noise Reduction technology..... in the beginning.....My how times have changed.....> There is a "little" difference. The Dolby technology is based on solid physical principles. The Rambus "technology" ignores them.

To: semiconeng who wrote (120683)	7/22/2000 6:12:07 AM
From: Anthony Corbett	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 1572631

Heh SemiCon I thought the main man was Ray Dolby. Who's Thomas?

To: semiconeng who wrote (120683)	7/23/2000 10:42:25 AM
From: Scumbria	Respond to of 1572631

semi, NOBODY was beating a path to his door for the original Dolby Noise Reduction technology Dolby's beginnings were rather different than Rambus'. Rambus got Intel locked into a very complex legal and financial relationship, long before DRDRAM technology was proven. This is a credit to the legal department at Rambus, and makes one question the leadership at Intel. Since then, the Rambus technology has largely failed. Most benchmarks show no performance gain at a significant price premium. Instead of developing a useful technology, Rambus has gone a different direction. Those same brilliant Rambus lawyers have figured out how to extract money from other people's products. In the animal kingdom, this is known as being a parasite. I think it is very unfair to Dolby to compare them with Rambus. Scumbria