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To: kapkan4u who wrote (70963)	2/7/2002 6:30:17 PM
From: wanna_bmw	Respond to of 275872

Kap, excellent link. Thanks. wbmw

To: kapkan4u who wrote (70963)	2/7/2002 6:52:06 PM
From: TGPTNDR	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Kap, Re: < Floating-body SOI DRAM. > Yikes. EE Times is working overtime this week. Nice article on turning a design problem into a new product. Thanks for the post. tgptndr

To: kapkan4u who wrote (70963)	2/7/2002 6:55:29 PM
From: combjelly	Respond to of 275872

"Floating-body SOI DRAM." Toshiba didn't say, but these guys were able to get less than 3ns read and write times. eetasia.com

To: kapkan4u who wrote (70963)	2/7/2002 7:57:50 PM
From: Pravin Kamdar	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 275872

Kap, Floating-body SOI DRAM. Great innovation. By the time Intel comes up to speed on SOI, all the patents will be taken! Pravin.

To: kapkan4u who wrote (70963)	2/7/2002 8:35:48 PM
From: hmaly	Respond to of 275872

Kap re...Floating-body SOI DRAM. This could probably be used to build huge L3 caches in future generations of Hammer.<<<<<<<<<<<< Yes very interesting, and it could also be a very ugly turn of events for Rambus, if Rambus has to start paying everyone else royalties. I also saw this article on the right hand side of the page. <>By Jack Robertson and Faith Hung EBN February 7, 2002 (7:06 p.m. EST) Reports earlier this week that the European Commission was dropping its Intel Corp. antitrust investigation may have been premature. A complaint against Intel filed by archrival Advanced Micro Devices is apparently still pending. Via Technologies recently withdrew its anti-trust complaint with the EC. A second complaint had earlier been filed against Intel by archrival Advanced Micro Devices, however, which said that its petition is still pending. An AMD spokesman said "our only information is that the EC investigation is still continuing." A flurry of news stories appeared early this week quoting two EC spokespersons that the 15-month investigation on Intel was being ended after Via dropped from the case. However, the EC has made no formal announcement of any such action, and an Intel spokesman said his company has received no notification from the EC that the antitrust probe has been dropped. Also unclear is whether an EC investigation would continue despite the withdrawal of a petitioner's complaint, if evidence of anti-trust behavior had been gathered. A Via spokesman confirmed that the Taiwan chip maker earlier this year had withdrawn its complaint to the EC. He said the reason was "to improve the company's chances to win (separate) pending litigation involving Intel at [European] national courts." Industry sources in the U.S. believe Via feared that judges in the civil cases might defer any action until after the lengthy EC antitrust investigation had been completed. Three years ago, a U.S. Federal Trade Commission antitrust case against Intel was closed after the two sides settled. The dispute largely centered around Intel withholding advance specification details to licensees that also had pending legal suits against Intel. Late last year, AMD lost a suit filed in Northern California Federal District Court to force documents from an earlier antitrust ligation against Intel to be turned over to the EC to help in probe of Intel. The judge ruled that AMD had no legal standing to bring the suit, adding that if the EC needed the documents it should file its own petition with the court.<<<<<<< HMMM And to think just last wk. the Intelibees were crowing about how Via and AMD had no case. Now we hear Via dropped the suit to improve their chances in another case: and AMD will carry on with this one. So now instead of no case, now VIA and AMD have two cases going.