Couldn't have happened to a better set of assholes.
To me that was the beginning of trying to create a monopoly in the realatively early days of the PC. Intel was in colusion with those F's and attempted to specify their memory for their processor. All you would get was maybe a 5 percent real world improvement for double to triple the cost. I always thought that Rambus was a company that figured out how to make money by not actually building anything but making big bucks on patents.
Screw'm.
Now if only other patent trolls like Apple were held to account.
Samsung and Infineon are feeling like suckers today.
I remember the backlash against Rambus when I was into computers oh...10 years ago? I thought they had gone the way of the dodo years ago. Maybe this is the death nail in their coffin.
I just can't wait for my 1.44 check to arrive...
I was going to ask, they settled for 900M and 150M. Are they still going to pay it, or Rambus refund it, or will Sammy/Infineon file new suits over it?
I didn't even know Rambus was still in business.
I remember it well- Rambus & Intel arrogantly trying to DP the whole market & their interlocking stock swaps, foiled by independent chipset makers like ALI, SIS & VIA, also Intel's former partner AMD.
Too bad Intel didn't take more of a beatdown in the whole process... they were half of the attempt to bully the market, & their conduct towards board makers was atrocious.