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To: cellhigh who wrote (32686)	1/5/1999 4:43:00 PM
From: KeepItSimple	Read Replies (3) \| Respond to of 164684

>dont lump me with newbies i've been around here a hell of a lot longer than you, Now you're sounding like William. And I suppose a degree in electrical engineering wouldn't help sway your astute assesment of my technical knowledge? >and made a killing. riddle me this..whats an rdram and what does it >do??? You should be more specific. Rambus has multiple license/patents that it is attempting to sell to dram manufacturers, and you can't categorize them all as "Rdram". Unless you just want to oversimplify. Riddle me this: The trouble is that the stock, trading at 332 times earnings, is valued as if it will maintain a monopoly status in memory enhancement. And that might not happen. Even as the memory makers like Micron, Hitachi, Toshiba and Samsung endorse Rambus, these same companies are working at bypassing its fees by simultaneously investing in two alternate high-speed memory interfaces: double-data-rate DRAM, or DDR-DRAM, and synchronous-link DRAM, or SL-DRAM. "DRAM companies are resistant to paying license fees," says Nathan Brookwood, a technology analyst at Insight 64. "They would love to have an alternative and not have to pay Rambus."