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Court Decision Favors Rambus

Posted by Hemos on from the and-it-goes-on-and-on dept.

RoscoeP writes "This story from News.com: "A federal judge has overturned two counts of fraud against chip designer Rambus...". At least Rambus can't pursue litigation against Infineon for SDRAM though." See our previous stories about Rambus for far-too-much background.

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  1. Greater than, less than by evilMoogle · · Score: 3, Insightful
    But the court...ordered Rambus to pay $7.1 million in Infineon's legal fees.
    Last May, a jury in the Virginia trial found Rambus guilty of fraud and regarding DDR SDRAM ordered the company to pay punitive damages of $3.5 million
    Now, I'm don't have any degree in mathematics, but I beleive that 7.1 million is GREATER than 3.5 million. Maybe numbers have changed, but RAMBUS isn't do itself any favors. And now they want to have to pay MORE lawyers fees, apparently with their intended appeal. Stupid RAMBUS.
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    1. Re:Greater than, less than by geekoid · · Score: 3, Insightful

      there trying positioning themselvs so they can gain gain royalties on ddr sdram. so an extra couple of million today to potentialy make billions later. Its a good business decsion from a strictly money making view point. If they don't do this, they'll basically fail anyways, and won't have the money to pay.

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  2. Unfortunatley... by srvivn21 · · Score: 3, Insightful
    They are claiming royalties on both SDRAM and DDR SDRAM. 3.5% on DDR and .075% on SDRAM. Sure those are paltry sums taken alone, but it may be enough to power the life support...

    Every time you purchase memory, you put a little cash back in Rambus' pocket. Or am I completly off my rocker?

    1. Re:Unfortunatley... by Saurentine · · Score: 2, Insightful
      They are claiming royalties on both SDRAM and DDR SDRAM. 3.5% on DDR and .075% on SDRAM. Sure those are paltry sums taken alone, but it may be enough to power the life support...

      Paltry sums?!?!?

      They're trying to claim 3.5% and .075% of a market that was anticipated to be $40 BILLION annually! Although most recent estimates are around $20 BILLION, that's not life support money, that's what sent their stock skyrocketing to around $125/share after splitting!

      Paltry sums? Oh, wait, you're Bill Gates, aren't you?

  3. Like ripping out a single coffin nail by Aerog · · Score: 5, Insightful

    But even if they're not criminally liable, the amount of bad publicity they've recieved in the last little while can't be anything but bad for busines. What with the fraud cases themselves as well as Intel dropping support, added to the cost difference between Rambus and SDRAM, they've distanced themselves from the majority of the geek community, something that other notable companies can afford to do, but they can't. When SDRAM is less than CDN$35 for 128mb, It's just impossible to sell on truse alone when you have no more trust.

    Now it's just sit back and wait for more bad news for Rambus.

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