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Rambus Could Reap Millions In Patent Settlements

Posted by kdawson on from the what-innovation-looks-like-now dept.

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."

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  1. World Cup of data sorting by the_other_one · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    How many parallel predicting octopuses were required to predict their victory?

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    1. Re:World Cup of data sorting by the_other_one · · Score: 0, Offtopic

      Damn, 1 min to login and posted to following story. This just missed a first post on the previous story. The scary thing is that Rambus could buy lots of live calamari to predict the future of the memory industry.

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  2. and all the compsci want to know by v1 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    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.

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    1. Re:and all the compsci want to know by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      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.

      what kind of niggerface* would actually mod this off-topic?


      *no offense to black people is intended. ugly stupid actions should be described by ugly words.