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To: Jim McMannis who wrote (120330)	12/3/2000 1:05:23 PM
From: Joseph Pareti	Respond to of 186894

>Maybe it won't be so easy for Intel to get a DDR/SDRAM chip out for the P4... may be it will... what is the lawyers-to-engineers ratio Rambus can afford

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (120330)	12/3/2000 6:38:03 PM
From: Tenchusatsu	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Jim, <Maybe it won't be so easy for Intel to get a DDR/SDRAM chip out for the P4...> Pretty interesting talk coming from Geoff Tate of Rambus. My guess is that Intel will take the most pragmatic way out of this legal mess, as always. If that means getting a "license" from Rambus to use DDR, Intel could possibly do that. Tenchusatsu

To: Jim McMannis who wrote (120330)	12/4/2000 12:11:29 PM
From: Daniel Schuh	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 186894

Rambus CEO surprises world+dog theregister.co.uk Meanwhile, Mike Magee's evil twin takes a shot at that conference call, or maybe just the net coverage thereof. Mountain View law firm Rambus, Rambus and Rambus held a conference call last week in which a couple of surprising - nay unbelievable - statements were made. CEO Geoff Tate replied to an analyst's question about how much time he spent on legal issues as opposed to looking at future technology with a very unlikely: "In recent weeks I've only been spending ten per cent of my time on litigation," adding: "I'm not a lawyer." Of course you're not, Geoff. That's why 90 per cent of the teleconference was taken up with legal issues And so on. Your friends are invited to join the team, Jim, though I doubt if the Intel legal team that negotiated their particular tar baby contract with Rambus would be given much consideration, if business acumen is a requirement. Rambus ought to give them a kickback for services rendered, anyway. And as if the company didn't have enough lawyers already, Rambus is currently advertising for yet more legal eagles here. ® The link is rambus.com . Includes a little PC admin on the side: Managing notebook functions and notebook formalities with in-house technical staff; I also liked this bit: Preparing and prosecuting domestic and foreign patent applications, 1-2 per quarter. C. I hate it when they prosecute patent applications. How are the poor applications supposed to afford a lawyer to defend themselves?