Mr. B

Rambus Steams Ahead

Complex litigation can be difficult to follow and the vagaries of the court system add another element of risk.

Pruf does a good job of distilling the current situation into a concise, understandable article.

Only in America can the criminal conduct of the memory cartel be tolerated for so long. Judge Whyte is finally bringing the Hynix litigation to a close after 8 1/2 years. As Nuke John points out above, the Robinson ruling that initially appeared to favor Micron is looking tenuous at best.

Sunlight is shining on the collusion of the memory manufacturers that drove RDRAM from the marketplace in the anti-trust trial in Judge Kramer's court. Damages of $4 billion are subject to trebling under the Cartwright Act.

Rambus has not only defended itself through this coordinated, litigation to the death strategy pursued by the memory manufacturers, but has some how continued to innovate. XDR is another step forward for Rambus IP.

You may ask why is there so much litigation around Rambus? Simply put, the revolutionary memory technology found in Rambus IP was so superior that it has become unbiquitous. The list of infringing companies is very long. It is time for every company that infringes to settle and get back to the task of making great products.