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To: Bilow who wrote (53956)	9/18/2000 10:50:07 PM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Carl, They are supposed to be the designers of a general purpose chip to chip interface. That interface was included in the MTH design. Rambus collected royalties on the i820 and i840 chipsets sold, No, they don't design general purpose chip to chip interfaces. They design Rambus chip to chip interfaces. I've never heard anyone from Rambus say, nor have I seen it printed anywhere, that Rambus designs Rambus-to-SDRAM interfaces. Or Rambus-to-DDR interfaces. Or Rambus-to-ATA interfaces. Et cetera. If you can point me to some reference work that claims that, I'd love to see it. So Rambus designs Rambus chip to chip interfaces. And the 820 and 840 work fine when the Rambus controller talks to the Rambus memory. So where do you think the problem would lie? Pretty much has to be the MTH chip. And who designed the RDRAM to SDRAM interface? Unless you know something we don't, we'd have to bet it was Intel. So this is not a Rambus problem. The Rambus "solution" works fine. This is an Intel "trying to design a work-around solution" problem. Dave