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Zeev Hed

04/27/04 9:11 PM

#236483 RE: osprey #236475

It is not a question I can even attempt to answer. There are more than 10 patents, just to read these will take who knows.
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Train Guy

04/27/04 10:15 PM

#236492 RE: osprey #236475

But the time any of it gets settled in the courts, the industry will have moved on to something better, faster, cheaper. Only reason INTC ever went with RMBS was they thought they needed to. The memory at the time was getting too slow for the CPU's. INTC under estimated the ability of manufacturers to push the current designs a little faster, and a little more faster, and a little more faster ...... RMBS was never needed, but INTC had already picked it. Eventually the market place and price won out. Now it really doesn't matter which, RMBS or current technology has about come to the end of the road. There is no more little bit faster. Makes a problem for INTC since memory becomes the bottle neck and it doesn't matter if you have a faster CPU. Luckily for INTC one of their engineers came up with a novel method that is better, faster, cheaper. Year from now nobody will care about RMBs or current memory designs. If INTC even asks for a royalty on the new memory it will be minor. They're just interested in selling faster more expensive CPUs.