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Samsung settles in Rambus dispute
KOREAN ELECTRONICS GIANT Samsung has raised a white flag and agreed to pay $900 million to make Rambus lawyers go away.
The money will be paid in installments over the next five years and is only part of a deal to settle some high-profile litigation focusing on memory chip technologies.
Samsung will pay a hefty $200 million now and $25 million each quarter for five years. In addition, the company will buy $200 million of newly minted Rambus stock and there will also be a new technology collaboration between the two outfits.
Samsung said the settlement won't have a significant effect on its earnings because it had already known that there was trouble ahead with its case and set aside provisions.
The two sides seem to have made the best of it in settling their differences. The partnership deal might prove fairly fruitful as it will combine Samsung's memory technologies with Rambus' ideas in high performance memory interfaces.
The two companies will initially focus on graphics and mobile memory solutions and will further review a potential collaboration on server and high-speed NAND Flash memories. µ
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What was your favorite Rambus feature?
a) 20 minute latency so you had an excuse to take a few extra coffee breaks every day
b) Thick metal heatsink on the giant memory module looked pretty sweet and made all the ladies swoon
c) Paying 3x as much as the guy next door for an inferior product made you feel better about using $100 bills to light your cigar
the Rambus company should only be history now, did same much evil, should burn in hell, but lawyers are devil's servants thus it must why it's still alive. disgusting and sad, let's do them all damn vampires lawyers.
Rambus has done the PC industry more harm than good, with everything from lying to stealing. They are an evil company run by the unethical.
As for I Know's statement, Rambus did have an opportunity to show off their memory with either the Pentium 2 or 3 and the results were horrid! Slow computers with memory that was astronomically priced. It really screwed Intel, but luckily AMD didn't fall for the Rambus trap and they got to produce computers that were faster and cheaper.
Do some research and see how Rambus hid the fact that they held patents for certain technology they were pushing on a standards committee. Fool us once...
The truth must hurt I guess. Do you work for that leach on the ass of technology?
Ooo I guess I better be careful or you'll sue me too. Yes go away, please do the world a favor.
"rambus lawyers go away" ?? This statement smacks of bias and unethical journalism. Samsung realized it was wrong and that's why they settled and not just to make "rambus lawyers go away". How easily you try to understate the obvious, Samsung was wrong.
This statement extract itself is proof of the anti-rambus bias in Inquirer's reportage all along.
What will Inquirer write about now that Rambus is being proved right?
For a company that makes very little they sure do get a lot of dosh from patent disputes and rightly so.
RB had the best RAM tech for decades, which if adopted would have speeded up PCs a lot more.