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To: Scumbria who wrote (54005)	9/19/2000 10:24:31 AM
From: sylvester80	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Scumbria, re: Do you think that Hitachi or Intel or AMD or any other microprocessor manufacturer should or would pay Rambus royalties for microprocessors? Excuse me but are you saying that if you had some intellectual property and patents on some technology that someone was infringing upon, you would just let them infringe? Do you also use napster to listen to CDs that you did not buy and never will? Do you also pirate software? Cause I just need to understand what IP and patents means to you. I know you are in the technology field so you must have some patents of your own (or that your company owns). Does your company give them away free? Did they put them in the public domain? Can you provide us with a link if that's the case?

To: Scumbria who wrote (54005)	9/19/2000 10:41:24 AM
From: Dave B	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Scumbria, Do you think that Hitachi or Intel or AMD or any other microprocessor manufacturer should or would pay Rambus royalties for microprocessors? The snowball effect of standardizing on a patented technology is that in the end the entire chain could be tapped for royalties. They're all potentially using Rambus-patented technology in their products so yes they should (unless they have something that Rambus wants more than money and is willing to trade off). Why should they get a free pass? As for what royalty rate should they pay, I have no idea. I don't know what the law allows in terms of trying to balance the % that the IP represents of the "total product". I'm not certain that that's even factored in from a legal point of view (any lawyers have any feedback?). Your "die area %" measurement makes some sense to me, but I don't think that that's what they're using for the yardstick for microcontrollers currently. Dave