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To: pompsander who wrote (68770)	3/21/2001 8:38:33 PM
From: pompsander	Respond to of 93625

And of course now we can all wonder why Samsung settled, or should I say, not wonder why they settled. I wonder what documents are floating around out there which we will never see.

To: pompsander who wrote (68770)	3/21/2001 8:55:49 PM
From: Bilow	Respond to of 93625

Hi pompsander; Re: "It would appear that RMBS did not submarine the patents, if the hearsay statement from Sansung can be believed. Certainly seems industry knew Rambus felt entitled to money for SDRAM back in 1992....just couldn't claim until later." If Rambus could have patented SDRAM in 1990, they'd have done so. If you read the Rambus patent of '92, it lists prior art for every feature that Rambus included in RDRAM. What was patentable was the collection of all the features together, not the individual features. Otherwise, Rambus would have patented the individual features in 1990. You guys are taking the attitude that since Rambus was trying to sell a high performance DRAM interface, they should have had credit for every high performance DRAM interface design kicking around at the time. SDRAM work started (at TI, for instance) in 1989, before Rambus was started. By the time April 1992 came around it was so set in stone that Intel was designing processors (the 586) to it. -- Carl

To: pompsander who wrote (68770)	3/21/2001 8:57:35 PM
From: Jdaasoc	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

pomp: Rambus felt entitled to money for SDRAM back in 1992 It has been very clear if you listen to RMBS management that they have always felt that RDRAM was the best solution for high speed computing memory interconnects and Intel has never deviated from their full support for RMBS technology. So what if Intel pushed SDRAM as an interim memory solution until RDRAM was cost effective and told RMBS trust me everything will work out all right. It is clear that in last week Micron has abandoned the JEDEC defense and is going to try to paint themselves as unwitting dupes of an Intel plot to control the memory market. I predict settlement soon because the smell is growing stronger of possible impropriety on the MM's and Intel's side. john