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To: Dave B who wrote (54003)	9/19/2000 10:15:44 AM
From: Scumbria	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Dave, My question about SH related to the size of the royalty. On an SH4 microprocessor (used in Dreamcast) the memory controller is probably about 5% of the die area. Suppose that the whole chip sells for $10. Five percent of the die area is the memory controller, so $0.50 is taxed. If Rambus has a 3% tax on SDRAM memory controllers, that would return one and a half cents to Rambus. Do you think that Hitachi or Intel or AMD or any other microprocessor manufacturer should or would pay Rambus royalties for microprocessors? Scumbria