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To: Zeev Hed who wrote (68724)	3/21/2001 6:35:57 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Hi Zeev Hed; Re: "blah, blah, blah, blah" Are you willing to make a statement on this thread to the effect that Rambus is going to win the patent lawsuits and collect royalties from Micron, Infineon and Hyundai on SDRAM and DDR? Or are you just going to play word games? Hey, you're the expert on patents, at least give us an idea of which way you think it's going to go. -- Carl

To: Zeev Hed who wrote (68724)	3/21/2001 6:48:56 PM
From: John Walliker	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Zeev, You will be especially interested in page 54/57 of fredhager.com which includes the words "Rambus under disclosure" in a joint IBM/Siemens document from 18 March 1992. John

To: Zeev Hed who wrote (68724)	3/21/2001 7:56:19 PM
From: jim kelley	Respond to of 93625

Treble damages...I certainly agree.

To: Zeev Hed who wrote (68724)	3/21/2001 11:53:28 PM
From: Bilow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

Hi Zeev Hed; Re: "Carl, since the patents were not yet published in April 1992, the industry efforts to get around the technology must have been based on "private peeks" under NDA." Since 1992 is such a long time ago, I can't easily find links dating that far back, but as early as June 1992 the industry (Toshiba in particular) already had working samples of RDRAM chips. That would indicate that it is likely that everybody in the industry already was well aware of Rambus' technology. The basic fact, Zeev, is that if you are trying to get the industry to use your new fangled memory interface, you don't do it by keeping quiet about it. Instead, you tell everybody about it, publish as many articles as you can get, get all the free press you can, and generally make yourself as well known as you can. I would predict that Infineon has no trouble whatsoever with any NDAs filed with Rambus. The basic reason is that Rambus is all about the interface, and the interface, in order for engineers to use it, must be public. NDAs would apply to the details of how the internal circuitry works, but it would certainly not apply, for instance, to the number of banks included in a chip. -- Carl P.S. Proof (from Rambus' own site) that RDRAM chips were running in June 1992: June 1992: Toshiba demonstrates working 4Mbit RDRAM rambus.com