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Hardware Micron Asks Rambus To Play Fair
Brandon Hill (Blog) - February 22, 2006 9:51 AM
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Micron files suit against Rambus for improper conduct

Micron means business, and they took Rambus to task yesterday by filing a suit against it. In an effort to protect its patents and its share of the $30 billion memory chip market, Rambus has been on a lawsuit spree for the past few years hitting all of the major chipmakers. Micron contends that Rambus has been shady in their presentation of facts to the courts:

The lawsuit charges Rambus, whose shares dropped more than 4 percent, with violating federal racketeering laws and accuses the company of destroying evidence, false testimony and other improper activities designed to mislead courts.

Rambus has been asking for as much as 3% royalties on infringing products as well as triple damages for what it sees as a deliberate violation of its computer/graphics memory patents.

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RAMBUS loves to take everyone to court
By tuteja1986 on 2/22/2006 10:38:11 AM , Rating: 2
I don't think no company would want to get involoved with rambus :! Rambus is unstable company :!

That company needs some serious help or it will end up being a company that everyone hates :!




By retrospooty on 2/22/2006 10:41:00 AM , Rating: 3
Where have you been? Everyone has already hated Rambus for years.


RE: RAMBUS loves to take everyone to court
By Questar on 2/22/06, Rating: 0
RE: RAMBUS loves to take everyone to court
By Ringold on 2/22/2006 1:30:18 PM , Rating: 2
Obviously, but we're emotional creatures, we humans.

If we hate Rambus, as I have since Intel's attempt to push it on the world, we simply will not ever buy Rambus RAM.

On the same coin, many of us LIKE Corsair (aka Micron). Therefore, we may even pay a small premium to have Corsair goods in our computer.

That obviously hurts the whole 'making money' thing. Sure, the OEM market is probably somewhat immune to that, but not entirely either. "Friends dont let friends buy Intel" has been my mantra since the 1.2ghz T-bird (and continues to be, but only tentatively -- many good products on the horizon! Oh, and the 2.4C was sweet..)


By RobFDB on 2/22/2006 2:23:56 PM , Rating: 2
You mean Crucial (aka Micron). Corsair use Micron chips but Crucial is the retail arm of Micron.


By Samus on 2/22/2006 6:03:18 PM , Rating: 2
If we hate Rambus, as I have since Intel's attempt to push it on the world, we simply will not ever buy Rambus RAM.

You buy RAMBUS every time you buy memory, because they get royalties from practically everyone. How do you think their still in business? Those console contracts from the N64, PS2, etc, only went so far as to make them money.


By Assimilator87 on 2/22/2006 5:40:59 PM , Rating: 2
Sony seems to be doing alright with Rambus. The Playstation 2 used RDRAM and the Playstation 3 uses every type of interface that Rambus makes. The Nintendo 64 also used RDRAM. I guess evil companies get along, excluding Nintendo =P


hahaha
By phaxmohdem on 2/22/2006 11:06:55 AM , Rating: 3
LOL put that in your pipe and smole it Rambus.

OMG!! OCZ just installed the same carpet in their HQ as you have in your's Rambus, your lawyers are slacking! Better get on that.




RE: hahaha
By mxzrider2 on 2/22/2006 10:14:07 PM , Rating: 2
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RAMBUS is allright.
By Clauzii on 2/22/2006 11:14:21 PM , Rating: 2
How fast is the communication between the two cores in a DUAL core CPU?




<Sigh>
By WhipperSnapper on 2/23/2006 12:44:21 AM , Rating: 2

<Sigh>. The Rambus zombie still manages to live. When will it finally go out of business?




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