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Rambus royalties

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joohang

Lifer
CNET Article

"I am surprised that DDR is that far above RDRAM."

To me, it's not much of a surprise. They probably want their competing technology to die off.

Edit: Why do DDR SDRAM and SDR SDRAM owe royalties to Rambus?
 
Rambus contends that the architecture for SDRAM was partially based on their intellectual property. Last summer, a couple of companies decided that they would rather pay royalties to Rambus than fight the issue in court. Essentially, they are paying a tax to Rambus and letting other companies fight the real battle.
 
From what I've read, Rambus in fact does hold patents to sDRAM technologies. The problem is that they pretty much kept the patents a secret from the world. The companies fighting Rambus contend that the patents should be rendered invalid due to Rambus' underhanded tactics.
 
Read these articles....

One Rambus trial was just thrown out: I like how the article put this about the SOB's of Rambus...

"If Infineon's fraud claims are convincing to the jury, certain Rambus execs could end up in the slammer. No kidding."

http://www.tech-report.com/onearticle.x/2396

also: in related court news

"Micron has its own SDRAM patent suit against Rambus pending in the Federal District Court in Wilmington, Del., slated to begin May 31. Both Infineon and Micron are raising charges that Rambus by failing to disclose its SDRAM patent applications misled the industry JEDEC committee that was drafting an open standard on the memory chip.

Both also allege that Rambus filed its specific SDRAM patent claims years after the JEDEC standard on SDRAM was adopted.

Rambus denies the charges and claims an original patent application filed in 1990 for its Rambus DRAM covers features found in SDRAM chips.

The Richmond court docket also disclosed that Federal Judge Robert Payne upheld an Infineon motion to bar supplemental testimony by Rambus' expert witness, William Huber, on whether Rambus 1990 patent application concerning a Rambus DRAM multiplex bus covered SDRAM which instead has three separate memory bus lines."

http://www.ebnews.com/digest/story/OEG20010430S0086

also: to go into inflated royalties to bolster their own crap rdram they have forced a 3.5 percent license royalty on those ddr manuf. who for either being dumb or just scared to get sued or paying...the srticle points that the older sdrsm standard gets charged only 0.75 precent...hefty gain no???

"Infineon, which Rambus is suing for patent infringement over its refusal to license the SDRAM interface, is to date paying no premium on its DDR SDRAM devices. The apparent pricing mismatch is being enjoyed by two other DRAM makers embroiled in legal suits with the Los Altos, Calif., design firm -- Hynix Semiconductor (formerly Hyundai Electronics Industries) and Micron Technology"

GREAT COMPANIES FOR STANDING UP...SUPPORT THESE COMPANIES

http://www.ebnews.com/story/OEG20010502S0055

 
joohang, this is very simple:
a theif stole the open standard and went to register some patents,
after he got the patents,
he's now suing others using that open standard as violating his patents and requesting royalties.

 
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