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To: The Duke of URL© who wrote (172701)	1/29/2003 11:39:50 PM
From: Windsock	Respond to of 186894

I misunderstood your point and thought that you were suggesting Dell would have some exposure for patent liability. The Rambus patents are specific to SDRAM, both regular flavor and DDR SDRAM. The patents were obtained on technology that resulted from their RDRAM development work. Rambus was on the JEDEC committee that developed the SDRAM standard and specifically sought coverage on the SDRAM standard. The fact that Rambus did not disclose their patent program was the basis of the fraud charge. A few of the patents in the Infineon action may also apply to RDRAM but that really does not matter. Rambus grants RDRAM patent licenses that do not include SDRAM rights. Separately, it grants an SDRAM license with a different royalty structure.