Rambus (RMBS)

[treowth]

<According to Rambus Inc., Sam does not have a license for XDRAM.>

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Bear, I agree that Rambus website does not indicate a license.

However, I respectfully disagree with your statement copied above.

I do believe that Samsung is producing XDRAM and the fact that Samsung is not "listed" relates to the politics of the litigation.

Here is a snip from a Rambus press release (6/6/05) - the day that Rambus added Samsumg to the DDR2 memory devices and GDDR2 and GDDR3 graphics memory devices litigation:

"While we have regarded Samsung as a valuable licensee of our patents for certain applications, a number of issues now exist that have made the renewal and expansion of the Samsung SDRAM/DDR license difficult," said Harold Hughes, chief executive officer at Rambus. "These issues have caused us to terminate that license prior to its scheduled June 30, 2005 end date. We continue to value our relationship with Samsung as one of the primary manufactures of memory using our XDR DRAM and RDRAM designs. We very much hope that there is an opportunity in the near future to normalize all other aspects of our relationship as well."

http://www.rambus.com/news/pressrelease.aspx?id=35

I could be wrong.

Any Donkey