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| Top Stories for September 14, 2000 (details below) | |
| Semiconductor Business News | NEC licenses Rambus patents, expands alliance for 1,066-MHz RDRAMs |
| Electronic Buyers' News | NEC's SDRAM deal with Rambus paves way for venture with Hitachi |
| C/Net | Rambus busy with lawsuits, deal |
| The Register Files | |
| The Register | Kingston takes stance on Rambus Affair |
| Microprocessor
Headline News Collected By Robert R. Collins |
Week of September 10, 2000 |
Older News |
| September 14, 2000 | ||
NEC licenses Rambus patents, expands alliance for 1,066-MHz RDRAMsSeptember 13, 2000 |
While legal battles intensify with other chip makers, Rambus Inc. here announced a new licensing pact with NEC Corp., covering controversial patents for synchronous DRAMs and double data rate
(DDR) memories. Rambus said the new agreement also expands its alliance with NEC to include development and marketing of next-generation, 1,066-MHz Direct Rambus
DRAMs.
The new pact was reached as Rambus expands its patent fight with several major DRAM manufacturers, which have refused to pay extra royalties for high-speed SDRAM and DDR technologies. On Monday, Rambus announced lawsuits in France and Germany against Micron Technology Inc. and Hyundai Electronics Co. Ltd. The Mountain View company also has asked the U.S. International Trade Commission (ITC) to block importation of Hyundai SDRAM and DDR memory products in the United States. |
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NEC's SDRAM deal with Rambus paves way for venture with HitachiBy Jack Robertson September 13, 2000 |
Is the NEC Corp. licensing deal to use Rambus Inc. SDRAM and DDR patents that significant? Some analysts are pondering the question.
An NEC spokesman in Tokyo told EBN that the agreement, which was announced Tuesday with some fanfare, covers only NEC SDRAMs and DDR chips through the end of the year. Starting Jan. 1, 2001, the NEC DRAM development and marketing operations are merged with similar activities of Hitachi in a new joint venture, NEC Hitachi Memory Inc. The spokesman said the Rambus licenses don't cover the joint venture, which must make its own deal with Rambus. |
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Rambus busy with lawsuits, dealBy Michael Kanellos September 12, 2000 |
The international saga that is Rambus continued this week as the company filed lawsuits in Europe against Hyundai and Micron and signed a licensing deal with NEC.
Rambus filed four lawsuits this week: two separate suits in Germany against Hyundai and Micron in Germany and two similar actions in France. Along with the four lawsuits, Rambus has also filed a complaint with the U.S. International Trade Commission to bar the importation of certain Hyundai memory chips into the United States. Both Micron and Hyundai filed lawsuits against Rambus in U.S. courts late last month. |
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Intel to offer PC makers rebates for using Rambus memoryBy Michael Kanellos September 8, 2000 |
With the Pentium 4's release just around the corner, Intel is working hard to ensure that cost won't be a barrier to acceptance.
The Santa Clara, Calif.-based chipmaker will give PC manufacturers rebates for incorporating Rambus memory inside computers containing Pentium 4 processors, according to sources close to the company. During the fourth quarter, PC makers will receive $70 for each Pentium 4 computer containing Rambus that they manufacture and $60 during the first quarter of 2001, according to an article that Inquest Market Research released today. The rebates will then get phased out. |
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Intel to push Rambus with rebates, Almador chip set, says analystBy Jack Robertson September 8, 2000 |
Intel Corp. will make two new attempts to spur the adoption of Direct Rambus DRAMs in the market. One is by offering a Pentium 4 rebate program. The other effort links the memory chip with its upcoming Almador chip set, which also supports PC133 SDRAM, said market analyst Bert
McComas.
Santa Clara-based Intel plans to offer a $60 to $70 rebate to every OEM customer that ships a high-end desktop with Pentium 4 using Direct Rambus memory, according to the latest Intel roadmap report released by McComas, principal of InQuest Market Research Inc., based in Gilbert, Ariz. He said the rebate, intended to get the new processor and Direct RDRAM off the ground quickly, won't apply to existing Pentium III PCs using Direct Rambus memory. |
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Intel chips in for cheaper Pentium 4 PCsBy John G. Spooner September 8, 2000 |
Intel Corp. is planning to subsidize the cost of Rambus direct RAM for PCs based on its
forthcoming Pentium 4 chip, sources said Friday.
The company, sources said, will offer PC makers a subsidy for each Pentium 4 PC sold in order to offset the cost of the memory technology to PC makers. The subsidies could shave $100 off the prices consumers pay for Pentium 4-equipped desktop PCs. |
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Kingston takes stance on Rambus AffairBy Mike Magee September 9, 2000 |
Senior executives at Irvine-based Kingston Technology today gave their take on the current argy-bargy over double date rate
(DDR), synchronous DRAM and Rambus.
The 1500 strong manufacturer, which has a 13 line surface mount technology (SMT) plant where tier one vendor AST used to ply its wares, said that SDRAM will still be mainstream for a good old while, for practical reasons. |
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