The Register Rambus may call it quits this after it emerged that its legal action against Infineon appears to have been limited to such a degree that the memory developer effectively has no room to manoeuvre. Rambus' lawyers told the trial judge, Robert E Payne, that his Markman ruling, which governs the extent to which a patent may be said to have been infringed, would not allow them grounds to claim patent infringement. After Judge Dread adminstered Payne to the Rambus side of the legal argument, we considered we should be brave and pile in there. Go there for more and also check out the marginally less funny info about a new Coppermink stepping. You can see Intel's pic of the Ranch Dude dancing with the Blue Meanies here.
Times are tough in the old hardware world.
According to the account, which you can find here, ZD Net in Germany posted the results, which will certainly cause some bats to fly out of their roosts and timbers to shiver. Although Intel will not be drawn, we know there will be .13 Pentium IIIs in Q3 and P4's at .13 micron in Q4. In fact, we've heard the .13 micron Pentium IIIs are already rolling off the conveyor belts. As Via Hardware righty remarks, put the letters AMD and Nvidia together with the word SNAP and everyone wants to read it. The companies are Mitac, Asus and Clevo and this is how it works.