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Rambus Could Reap Millions In Patent Settlements
RedEaredSlider writes "Rambus, a designer of semiconductor chips, won a long-running patent battle with NVIDIA, but that dispute is not the only one the company is involved in — and the upcoming decisions could mean millions in additional revenue. Besides the NVIDIA decision, Rambus is involved in a suit with Hynix Semiconductor that will be heard in October. In that case, Hynix had originally sued Rambus in 2000, but Rambus counter-sued. Hynix lost, and appealed. The parties will appear before the US Court of Appeals for the Federal Circuit in October. A judgment in Rambus's favor would be worth at least $397 million, according to the company's general counsel, Tom Lavelle."
ATI is going to want to get sued in about six months for $500 million.
Ah! I see you have joined me in redundancy by hitting the /. high speed publishing trap.
134340: I am not a number. I am a free planet!
what algorithm were they using? And how were they load balancing? You'd almost have to be doing a bucket sort initially? And there was no detail whatsoever as to the data being sorted. Were they just a crapton of 64 bit words, sentences, database records, what was the data being sorted? I can sort a petabyte in O(1) time if it consists of two records each 1/2pb in size. None of what they've said means anything without getting into the context.
Oh, sorry ... this is abuse. Argument is down the hall.
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
How many parallel predicting octopuses were required to predict their victory?
You mean "predictopi".
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Where do I go for sexual harassment. I'm not getting any,
134340: I am not a number. I am a free planet!
Because crime doesn't pay, but exploiting flawed laws pays big time!
Ohh I didn't realise that if you patent troll an illegal oligopoly, it's no longer patent trolling, it is in fact awesome patenting for great justice?
No, patent trolls are patent trolls.
I didn't know Rambus employees were able to get onto slashdot to post as AC's, though, I thought the RAM in their desktops was too slow to allow them to log on.
I am government man, come from the government. The government has sent me. -- G.I.R.
RDRAM's advantage the whole time was the ability to put in a lot more RAM than with DDR because since each DIMM regenerated the signal before passing it on, you could daisy chain RAM as far away as you'd like, unlike where with SDRAM or DDR the total bus length was limited by the capacitance placed on by all the DIMMs on the bus.
I read the above paragraph with the voice of Doc Emmett Brown... "No no no! You're not thinking fourth-dimensionally!"
No he doesn't, see http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wFyY2mK8pxk - and as an added bonus you get a very nice piece of thinking man's crumpet as well.
"Ah say, ah say, it's a JOKE, son!" -- Foghorn Leghorn
The higher the technology, the sharper that two-edged sword.
Rambus has a 2:1 lawyer to engineer ratio (they did 2-3 years ago), which skews them towards patent troll ;)
No, the fact they are now into LED lighting skews them towards money hungry jewclub.
And i suppose that you are some kind of Germanic super-engineer who's been in hiding since the war ended in 1945?