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To: combjelly who wrote (28413)	2/14/2001 8:14:58 AM
From: fyodor_	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

combjelly: I believe at their last quarterly CC they mentioned that they were looking at HyperTechnology (LDT) and talking with AMD about licensing the pertinent Rambus patents. I'm not sure what Rambus claims, but there is zero chance of them getting their DDR patents to apply to non-memory uses. That includes xDEC's EV6 (and EV7) bus, Intel's P4 bus and a slew of other implementations, many of which existed before the name "Rambus" was even dreamt of. I'm not in a position to evaluate Rambus' chances of getting their memory patents upheld, and this certainly isn't the forum to discuss it (but, like everyone else, I have an opinion on the subject ;)), but it's quite clear that the body of prior art is incredibly huge in non-memory applications (one of the reasons many believe Rambus' main patents to be completely invalid). In other words, Rambus has zero chance at applying their patents to LDT, EV6 and Intel's P4 bus (AGTL+?). Sure, they might have to do a little posturing for their shareholders every now and then, but that's it. -fyo