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Rambus Inc v Micron, not over yet! | 52 comments | Create New Account
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Authored by: bugstomper on Wednesday, November 21 2012 @ 01:18 PM EST
Please summarize in the Title box error->correction or s/error/correction/ to
make it easy to scan see what needs to be corrected and to avoid duplication of
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I'm still puzzled
Authored by: rsteinmetz70112 on Wednesday, November 21 2012 @ 01:52 PM EST
How can the Judge or anyone else evaluate a royalty rate without referring to
the rates paid by others and how they are calculated.

Isn't that the core issue of this whole case? HTC would seem to be a close
analog to Motorola.

This part of the stipulation seems to say that that Apple will provide the
agreement, but not the important bits.

"only provisions being redacted relate only to the amount of the monetary
payment, including how the amount is calculated"

If I was the judge I'd make them provide me the whole thing, even if it is
sealed and only the lawyers can look at it.

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Rsteinmetz - IANAL therefore my opinions are illegal.

"I could be wrong now, but I don't think so."
Randy Newman - The Title Theme from Monk

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Chinese walls in software development
Authored by: Anonymous on Wednesday, November 21 2012 @ 09:13 PM EST

Yes, and we know how well some of those worked out. Pardon my
cynicism...

Wayne
http://madhatter.ca

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Rambus Inc v Micron, not over yet!
Authored by: Anonymous on Monday, November 26 2012 @ 03:10 PM EST
Proving once again that it ain't over till it over, Rambus may very well succeed in getting Micron back into court.

Quote: "SAN FRANCISCO — Rambus Inc. is asking the California Court of Appeal to revive its $4 billion price- fixing case against Micron Technology Inc. and SK Hynix Inc., saying two San Francisco Superior Court judges erred by excluding evidence that its alleged co-conspirators pleaded guilty to federal criminal charges. Rambus also accuses Hynix of improperly striking two of the three African-American members of the jury pool, suggesting part of the reason was Rambus' lead trial counsel being African- American." End Quote

You have be a member to access full story. But Rambus back in court!

Some other interesting facts are that both Hynix and Samsung have settled with Rambus and admitted wrong doing in attempting to price RD-RAM out of the market. Rambus unlike some patent trolls spend countless millions on R&D and enabled companies like ARM, Sony, IBM and Nvidia to make giant leaps in memory and bus architecture and design technology.

In fact Rambus and Nvidia recently came to an licensing agreement concerning technology designs Nvidia stole from Rambus when they were partnered on the STI (Sony Toshiba IBM) invited Rambus in to design the XDR Memory Architecture that was also included in the RSX (Reality Synthesizer Graphics Chip) GPU with Nvidia.

Their brilliant designs in Ring Bus Memory Controllers and LPDDR3 in partnership with ARM and SAMSUNG are what have ARM's latest A15 SoC processor achieving (unheard of up to now in a mobile device chips), speeds from 12.8GBps to 26.6GBps. This is remarkable considering these chips are in low power phones & tablets coming out now. Soon to be powering ARM next generation A50 64bit Server chips. Next summer in fact those chips may just be in your cell phone powered by Rambus's Memory Geniuses.

Another fact few people know is SAMSUNG now owns part of Rambus and though Micron may be buying Elpida... they aren't getting the patents they were after. They're being sold. When you add up the possible wrongs committed by the judge in this case (that Rambus is trying to get opened back up), to the fact that both Micron's co-conspirators pleaded guilty to criminal charges, the long arm of the law may just nab Micron yet!

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