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To: Rich1 who wrote (78576)	9/17/2001 11:08:44 AM
From: Don Green	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Dressed for Success -- Dell Redesigns Its High-End Desktop for Consumers and Small Businesses -- Stylish New Chassis For Customers with Performance, Expansion and Easy Access In Mind Story Filed: Monday, September 17, 2001 8:02 AM EST AUSTIN, Texas, Sep 17, 2001 (BUSINESS WIRE) -- Dell (Nasdaq:DELL) today announced availability of the Dimension(tm) 8200, its most powerful, expandable multimedia desktop for consumers and small businesses, featuring a bold new chassis design. The Dimension 8200 -- powered by Intel Pentium(R) 4 processors with speeds up to 2GHz, Rambus RDRAM, the latest in graphics cards and other peripherals such as a 100GB hard disk drive -- delivers the necessary performance to effortlessly run video editing applications, 3D games, and various other high-end entertainment and business applications. New Chassis Dell designed its latest Dimension 8200 chassis with an emphasis on customers' needs for performance, style, expansion and ease-of-access. The midnight-gray chassis opens like a clamshell and without tools, making it quicker and easier to access internal components. Changing those internal PCI cards such as modems or sound cards, is also a "tool-free" operation. For convenience, Dell added two USB ports and a headphone jack to the front of the system -- no more reaching around to the back. "The 8200 combines the latest Intel(R) Pentium (R) 4 processor and high performance peripherals to deliver new levels of performance to customers who are running advanced applications such as video editing, digital photography, music and MP3 creation, and entertainment titles; all delivered in a stylish and easy-to-use new package," said Neeraj Srivastava, marketing director, Dell Dimension. Pricing Dimension 8200 pricing in the United States begins at $1,199(a). For customers interested in high-end, multimedia performance, a sample configuration includes a system with the Intel Pentium 4 processor at 2GHz, 128 MB of RDRAM, a 100 GB(b) hard drive, NVIDIA GeForce2 GTS graphics card, 16X CD-RW drive, harman/kardon(R) (HK-395) speakers, M991 19-inch monitor (18-inch viewable) and a SoundBlaster Live Sound(tm) card for $2,129(a). For more information about Dimension desktops visit www.dell.com/dimension.

To: Rich1 who wrote (78576)	9/17/2001 1:11:52 PM
From: jim kelley	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Rich It actually looks very positive. Intel is supporting RAMBUS 100% and putting a floor under its earnings for the next 5 years. This follows statements made during the IDF by a Intel executive to the effect that they expect Rambus to prevail in its appeal and its other lawsuits. The cross licensing is extremely important because it assures that RAMBUS and INTEL will not become engaged in IP disputes and it frees Rambus to continue its high speed bus interface innovation and connect to Intel's busses in the future. Rmabus will be able to collect royalties from all the other companies using its technology. This also gives the lie to the anti Rambus camp's cry of "no future support from Intel". All in all, it is EXCELLENT NEWS!

To: Rich1 who wrote (78576)	9/17/2001 1:12:15 PM
From: Don Green	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

Rambus signs new patent license agreement with Intel By Jack Robertson, EBN Sep 17, 2001 (8:05 AM) URL: ebnews.com Rambus Inc. and Intel Corp. Monday announced they have signed a new patent cross-licensing agreement that supercedes the companies' previous agreement, but the two firms provided no specific details as to what the new accord includes. Analysts have speculated for months that Intel negotiated a new licensing pact with Rambus that removes the restrictions and penalties associated with Intel's support of double-data-rate (DDR) SDRAM memory, a rival memory interface to Rambus' Direct Rambus DRAM. Executives of the two companies Monday declined to disclose terms of the new deal. Intel in the first quarter of 2002 is slated to start production shipments of a DDR-enabled version of its 845 chipset to support Penitum 4 processors. The company confirmed it has already delivered engineering samples of the DDR chipset to OEMs and motherboard makers to allow them to qualify the new units and introduce their own products early next year. Such a move would have violated the original intent of Intel's previous Rambus licensing agreement, which prohibited Intel from supporting the DDR standard until 2003. Under that deal, such a move could have triggered provisions resulting in termination of the licensing pact or forced Intel to pay Rambus penalty fees. The previous agreement also allowed Intel to acquire 4 million shares of Rambus stock at $2.50 each -- then a wildly attractive discounted price. To exercise that option, Intel had to meet several benchmark criteria, including shipping at least 33% of its chipsets supporting RDRAM in each of two consecutive quarters.