Rambus on the rampage alleging Nvidia infringement
CHIP INTERFACE and architecture licenser Rambus says the US international Trade Commission (ITC) has agreed to poke and probe Nvidia about purported infringement of no less than nine of the firm's patents.
Specifically, Rambus has taken issue with bits and pieces of Nvidia products which have DDR, DDR2, DDR3, LPDDR, GDDR, GDDR2, and GDDR3 memory controllers bunged into them, as well as other firms' products which include them.
These include GPUs and "media and communications processors" according to Rambus, who added that a date for the hearing had not yet been scheduled.
Rambus is well known to be a bit of a pain in the tech world's collective behind, getting on its licensing high horse and suing firms left, right and centre at the best of times.
Just last week the firm won a pretrial ruling in another patent case involving some of the big cheeses of the semiconductor world, including Hynix, Samsung Electronics, Nanya Technology and Micron. µ
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The heading of your "article" tells a saga of bias with very little research behind it. You further state:
"Rambus is well known to be a bit of a pain in the tech world's collective behind, getting on its licensing high horse and suing firms left, right and centre at the best of times."
Rambus is an IP company that have, with IEEE honorees, invented some incredible technology to help speed up computing. Rambus WAS a company full of engineers and their idea was to invent and then license their inventions (which they do to IBM, AMD, Toshiba and many others) BUT some (Micron, Hynix, Siemens, Nvidea and Samsung among others) decided to just STEAL the IP and then sue (YES, they sued Rambus, not the other way around). These lawsuits are now close to 10 years in the making and when these manufacturers got together in a Joint Defense Agreement and swore to Kill Rambus they sure thought they would be able to. The problem is that Rambus has won EVERY SINGLE battle in court and it may be time to pay the piper. Rambus is indeed on a rampage BUT the reason is obvious - other companies steal their inventions that make your pc and cell phone do what it does in the speed it does it.
Your publication has always only had one angle to this story but if you remember journalism 101 then you're supposed to report fair and balanced views.
Please do some due diligence (www.rambus.org is good place to start), read the FTC ALJ ID for example - found here: http://rambus.org/legal/ftc/id.txt
Then come back and do some honest reporting.
Your publication has a long history of supporting the views that support the memory cartel. It is unfortunate that simply do not take the time to research what is an incredibly compelling story.
Meet Mike Farmwald, one of the inventors of the Rambus system for creating ultra-fast chip to chip connections, especially those used in memory systems!
http://www.farmwald.com/mikehtml.html
One interesting point that is seldom publicized but can be found in the transcripts from many of the litigation venues is that Mike originally approached IBM about this new way of speeding up memory chips.
He could not get an audience at IBM, but was introduced to a retired "IBM Fellow". Mike flew out for a meeting at the man's upstate New York home. He scribbled the Rambus concepts on a napkin. A few days later, IBM offered Rambus 10 million dollars for the rights to the system. Rambus (all 2 employees at the time) turned down 10 million bucks in 1990!
IBM saw something that would change the industry. Michael Dell saw it too (pg 144 of his book), but unfortunately for Rambus, a criminal cartel made up of multi-billion dollar, multi-national memory chip manufacturers saw it as well and decided to sign NDA's with Rambus, incorporate (that’s steal) the Rambus technology and through their combined efforts and political connections to destroy Rambus.
Fortunately for Rambus, they have not only survived but are thriving as they have been winning court case after court case against the companies that tried to destroy them, and have continued to invent the things that the industry doesn’t even know it needs yet!
Wake up girl!
You're serving up the criminal PRICE FIXING* cartel's propaganda and you don't know it!
Read This for Starters:
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Sylvie: Your article about Rambus shows that you have not done your required research before writing. How could you have let the IP thieves go unpunished for their crime? Are youa bloody communist??
You should have kept your mouth shut!
Anyone?
Maybe the Rambus spinners can tell us what's the status with this:
http://europa.eu/rapid/pressReleasesAction.do?reference=MEMO/07/330
Does Inquirer have reporters of such poor quality? Whither research? Whither truth?
He sounds like one of those imbeciles who speak because in your country (as mine) one can exercise right to free speech without any responsibility.
In short, the reporter and his reportage is, to be euphemistic, NONSENSE !!