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To: Chas who wrote (160954)	9/22/2000 9:09:37 AM
From: Meathead	Respond to of 176387

Hello Chas -- When it's all said and done, Rambus will not prevail IMO. Some of their patents are legit while the ones they are trying to enforce on the industry right now should not hold up. Sampling data on the rising and falling edges of a clock is 'obvious' and has previous but limited incarnations. RAMBUS is also in violation of certain rules where they sat on committies and knowingly let industry participants develop technologies that would potentially infringe on RAMBUS's patents... you cant help enable broadly supported technologies then turn around and say 'by the way, we own this and you must pay us'. This goes way beyond DDR. RAMBUS memory as a technology is also in trouble. From an engineering and manufacturing standpoint, I don't like it and never have... too fussy. Also, memory manufactures want it to fail cause it's very difficult to make and they dont want to pay royalties. The support for RAMBUS development was basically Intel and RAMBUS. For DDR, there are many many participants. Though DDR has higher pincount, its easier to mfg, offers excellent bandwidth and has massive support. DDR will likely win the mainstream memory battle and RAMBUs will be relegated to niche markets. MEATHEAD