Rambus sues NVidia

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Genx87

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That company of lawyers sure laid out a well designed plan to extort money from the memory industry.
 
taltamir

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sucks when the patent system has been sufficiently corrupted to where ideas are actually patentable.
 
Zap

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Originally posted by: taltamir
sucks when the patent system has been sufficiently corrupted to where ideas are actually patentable.
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My idea is to patent the idea of suing others over patents. :D Too bad there's prior art.
 
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nRollo

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Originally posted by: AmberClad
What is this? Everyone-pile-on-Nvidia month?
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Next Number 9 Graphics will be suing them saying NVIDIA's tech demos violate their patent on "groovy video card stuff".

:)


(Number 9 was an old graphics company that named everything after Beatles stuff, for those of you who haven't been pc gaming since before 3d graphics)
 
taltamir

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Originally posted by: Zap
Originally posted by: taltamir
sucks when the patent system has been sufficiently corrupted to where ideas are actually patentable.
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My idea is to patent the idea of suing others over patents. :D Too bad there's prior art.
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you think that is funny? I don't remember what big company did, but they tried just that... and also the idea of "problem solving" and "deductive reasoning"... or something... ars technica had an article about it.
 
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nismotigerwvu

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Is it just me or has everything that rambus even remotely touched down to hell. N64, PS3, Netburst.....
 
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nismotigerwvu:

PS3 is a pretty sweet system, and a damn fine BluRay player.

N64 had some damn fine games (Ocarina Of Time, Goldeneye).

Remember, RAMBUS was pulled out late in the Pentium 3's life, before Netburst.

Though I agree RAMBUS is a joke and has become a company of lawyers, not technology.
 
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nismotigerwvu

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I was regarding the hardware more than anything. I don't think you'd find much resistance to calling the N64 a flawed piece of hardware (4KB for textures....yeah 4K...they broke the bank springing for the RDRAM). On the Pentium 4 front I can swear to you the Willamette P4's were pushing RDRAM, but I believe the it was introduced first on the P3 as you mentioned (someone look it up for me but I want to say the i840). The PS3, IMHO, is in the same boat as the N64 as being a flawed piece of hardware (Cell, in it's current design, is ill-fitted for use as a general purpose processor and the RSX is severely outdated, I mean you don't see people in a rush to pick up 7800GT's do you?). This doesn't mean that they technical issues can't be dealt with (see OoT/Goldeneye/Resistance FoM).
 
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LOL haven't heard of Rambus since its heyday IPO around 10 years ago. It's amazing how such a promising tech company can become a safe hideout for scrupulous lawyers, looking to shoot passerby! Is there a tech company that has NOT been sued by Rambus yet?!
 
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Originally posted by: shangshang
LOL haven't heard of Rambus since its heyday IPO around 10 years ago. It's amazing how such a promising tech company can become a safe hideout for scrupulous lawyers, looking to shoot passerby! Is there a tech company that has NOT been sued by Rambus yet?!
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Only those who don't use or make any sort of DRAM.

Rambus is scum.
 
Schadenfroh

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Originally posted by: nismotigerwvu
Is it just me or has everything that rambus even remotely touched down to hell. N64, PS3, Netburst.....
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You mean like the best selling game console in history... the Playstation 2?
 
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thilanliyan

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Originally posted by: nismotigerwvu
I was regarding the hardware more than anything. I don't think you'd find much resistance to calling the N64 a flawed piece of hardware (4KB for textures....yeah 4K...they broke the bank springing for the RDRAM). On the Pentium 4 front I can swear to you the Willamette P4's were pushing RDRAM, but I believe the it was introduced first on the P3 as you mentioned (someone look it up for me but I want to say the i840). The PS3, IMHO, is in the same boat as the N64 as being a flawed piece of hardware (Cell, in it's current design, is ill-fitted for use as a general purpose processor and the RSX is severely outdated, I mean you don't see people in a rush to pick up 7800GT's do you?). This doesn't mean that they technical issues can't be dealt with (see OoT/Goldeneye/Resistance FoM).
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Yes the Willamette's had RDRAM. I know...I still have one of those systems with the i850 chipset.

I disagree with the PS3 being flawed. It has some good looking games (Uncharted <--this surprised me more than any other game, MGS4, GTA4) and although it can't match today's graphics cards, it does a decent job. However, one thing I'd change is the amount of ram...what is it a total of 512 for both CPU+GPU?

The one thing I admire about PS3 games is the use of shadows. Very few PC games I've played have the level of detail in shadows I've found in PS3 games. I'm not sure if this is a consequence of Cell or not but I always notice it in PS3 games and am always glad for it. I just wish some of the games had some AA added.

In terms of Cell, while you probably won't see it running Vista, it works fine for Blu-Ray playback, the games, and I even have linux running on it so I can use it as a web surfing computer if I wish as well.
 
lopri

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How could Rambus sue NV? NV uses DDR technogies and they are JEDEC standards afaik.
 
ViRGE

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Originally posted by: lopri
How could Rambus sue NV? NV uses DDR technogies and they are JEDEC standards afaik.
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Because Rambus got/let Rambus technology in to the JEDEC DRAM standards. Now everyone has to pay for the patented technology they're using.
 
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