Nickname: sab

Review: having attended the CADC in february, i would like to see your words pertaining to that and the recent phase 3 win against hynix.

Date reviewed: Mar 30, 2008 1:26 PM

Nickname: tech_stock

Review: It's been a long time since you wrote this article and many more facts have come out since, I hope you will consider a followup soon. The Rambus conduct trial in the NDCA is scheduled to start January 29 and the FTC appeal is well underway. An Amicus brief filed by Skip Oliva of the Voluntary Trade Council is well worth reading and it has only recently been discovered that much of the case put forth by the FTC complaint councel was actually authored by Micron's outside lawyers. This is a very complicated story and you seem to understand it better than most so I hope to hear more from you soon.

Date reviewed: Dec 26, 2007 9:16 PM

Nickname: Al

Review: Excellent article. There have been many developments since you wrote it in 2005. I hope you would take the time to do a follow up article to bring us uptodate on this interesting saga. There are some huge court events coming up in 2008.

Date reviewed: Dec 26, 2007 4:02 PM

Nickname: rambus_is_inside

Review: originalgeek states: "Rambus was doomed to fail the moment they revealed their patents on certain features they had pushed through the standards committee." This is a statement that is erroneously repeated. Rambus was never permitted to present their technology at JEDEC. However, their technology was lifted from non-disclosure agreements's they signed with the memory manufacturers. Their IP was stolen.

Date reviewed: Mar 26, 2006 12:44 PM

Nickname: stratertele

Review: Finally, a reporter who is beginning to probe the corruption that has transpired for over a decade--against Rambus. Rambus is a pure play brilliant IP company that has been hammered for years by multinational corps. Their revoluntary IP was flat out stolen. There is nothing novel here. More often than not, IP must be upheld in a court of law before royalties are given by the wider industry. Rambus had no duty to disclose in JEDEC its patent applications, five federal judges see this accurately, one moron didn't. If it was not for one moron judge, in a Micron town, all this would have been resolved a couple years ago. All you have to do is read the many documents out there to figure it all out. Then it becomes obvious who the true villains are.

Date reviewed: Mar 26, 2006 6:39 AM

Nickname: burnt_by_RDRAM_prices

Review: And here is me: a customer(software developer), who had to shell out a $1000 on RDRAM-based memory upgrade just to keep the workstation "in shape." Now that I know the story I want my money back!

Date reviewed: Feb 9, 2006 7:27 AM

Nickname: stuntmanstan

Review: May the truth be told and allow RAMBUS to collect on what they have discovered. That is the American way. If you invent or design it then you should reap the rewards.

Date reviewed: Dec 22, 2005 12:16 AM

Nickname: Chinaguy

Review: U.S. companies should give all of their IP away for free. Why should foreign companies in Korea, Japan and Germany have to pay companies in the U.S. like RMBS just because they invent the technology they all use?

Date reviewed: Nov 29, 2005 6:37 AM

Nickname: sensible

Review: Rambus are patent trolls, no more, no less. Unfortunately in this tale, as in most corporate tales, there is no good guy. There are only the greedy, the lawbreakers, and those who get caught.

Date reviewed: Nov 2, 2005 4:34 PM

Nickname: skippy

Review: Hmmh, let's see, Rambus invents some RAM technology. They do a deal with Intel, then try to charge everyone else high licensing fees. So the memory stays high-priced and no one else adopts it. Then Rambus "contributes" some of its technology to a RAM standard, patents it, and tries to charge everyone for it. Between the courts and the markets, their abuse of the standards and patent process is blocked. Now they're crying conspiracy, kind of like a dork who kicks sand in the jock's face and whines when he gets beat up.

Date reviewed: Nov 2, 2005 1:31 PM