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To: Sully- who wrote (79765)	11/13/2001 8:46:28 PM
From: blake_paterson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93625

SiS and Rambus expand technology licensing agreement Regional Taiwan, China, Japan, Korea, Others Hans Wu, Taipei; Christy Lee, DigiTimes.com [Tuesday 13 November 2001] Silicon Integrated Systems (SiS) and Rambus announced on November 12 that they will expand their original licensing agreement to allow SiS to incorporate Rambus’s latest technology, Direct RDRAM, and to integrate the company’s other IP (intellectual property) into SiS’s future products. Alex Wu, director of SiS’s IPD, said that at present the company’s research into Rambus technology will mostly focus on PC applications and will probably extend to communications and consumer products in the future. However, it will not start manufacturing RDRAM, said the Taiwan chipset designer, which operates one 8-inch fab. Wu indicated that SiS signed a licensing agreement with Rambus in 1994, allowing the company to use RDRAM technology of up to 600MHz in transmission speed. However, as transmission speeds have now risen to 800MHz, SiS felt that it needed to renew the license to include the latest technology. He added that SiS’s renewing its technology agreement with Rambus was out of consideration for its future development, not for tightening its relationship with Intel as the market had implied. Given that the licensed technology will only be applied in some preliminary research, Wu said that it is still too early to predict the actual revenue contribution from the Rambus technology. Rambus vice-president and general manager Frank Fox said, "Best of class desktop PCs and workstations use RDRAM memory to achieve the highest levels of performance. As these systems penetrate into the mainstream market, SiS will be well positioned to offer pure performance solutions based on RDRAM memory technology." Fox believes that RDRAM is likely to take a 10% share of the DRAM market in 2002. digitimes.com 11/13&pages=03&seq=20