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Rambus Allowed to Continue Patent Dispute Case

ZuperDee writes "According to an article at Forbes, Rambus has just won a major victory against Hynix semiconductor. They have also signed a $75 million licensing deal with AMD." The victory? Well, come March they get to go to trial against Hynix.

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  1. Re:RAMBUS - Another company people love to hate. by Stormwatch · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Keep in mind that, unlike SCO, Rambus may actually have a case.

  2. AMD + Rambus Multicore by adam31 · · Score: 3, Interesting
    75$ mil deal and AMD gets access to "the good stuff". There's a reason XDR is going into the Cell processor, and it's because 25.6 GByte/s is the right bandwidth to feed 9 cores @ 3.2 Ghz. But it's way, way more than you need for a dinky 1- or 2-core processor (for those you're better off spending money on the super low-latency SRAM instead).

    So does this mean that AMD is jumping on the many-multicore design bandwagon? They must have something up their sleeve...