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Technology Stocks : Rambus (RMBS) - Eagle or Penguin -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Jon Khymn who wrote (76293)	7/28/2001 3:57:01 PM
From: pheilman_	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 93625

To understand the burning hatred for Rambus by the memory makers, please read: "As attempted billion-dollar heists go, this one was unobtrusive. There wasn't a pile of cash in the room or a trove of jewels stashed in a vault. The target was far more ethereal. " fortune.com Rambus did not design SDRAM or DDR, they just tried to modify some old patents using continuation to cover them. As Bilow points out, the additions to make SDRAM from DRAM were trivial and obvious to anyone skilled in the art, add input and output registers and a state machine. And Hitachi and TI had patents on SDRAM before Rambus applied for SDRAM patents. Hitachi folded because Rambus threatened Sega's import of Dreamcast boxes. Not brats, disturbing litigious thieves. The use of a pure IP company to extort royalties is very scary to industry. Paul