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Titolo: Me lo dite che non capisco l'inglese?

Toshiba Signs Patent License Agreement With Rambus 
For SDRAM & DDR SDRAM Memory and Controllers
Mountain View, California. -- June 15, 2000 -- Toshiba Corporation and
Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq: RMBS) today signed a new patent license agreement
for SDRAM, Double Data Rate (DDR) SDRAM, DDR FCRAM memory and
Controllers that directly interface with these types of memory. 
Toshiba has been developing, manufacturing and selling Rambus
compatible IC's since 1990. The new agreement covers patents for
fundamental aspects of high-speed memory interfaces invented by
Rambus, which are currently being implemented in SDRAM, DDR SDRAM and
DDR FCRAM memory and controllers which directly interface with these
types of memory. 
Under the licensing agreement, the royalty rates for DDR SDRAM and the
controllers, which directly interface with DDR SDRAM, are greater than
the RDRAM compatible rates. The agreement also includes royalties for
SDRAM and for controllers that directly interface with SDRAM, as well
as a license fee for the entire agreement.
"This agreement ensures that Toshiba has rights to these important
Rambus patents which are necessary to continue providing our customers
with their choice of memory and logic products," said Yasuo Morimoto,
president and CEO, Toshiba Corporation Semiconductor Company. "Toshiba
will continue to be a leader in providing RDRAMs and Rambus-compatible
logic products."
"We have had a long and mutually beneficial relationship with Toshiba.
Rambus develops and licenses IP - our objective is to produce
innovations that will benefit the semiconductor and systems
industries, and by licensing these innovations to generate a return on
investment to our shareholders," said Geoff Tate, Rambus' chief
executive officer. "We believe our Rambus memory interface is the best
solution for the majority of the market. Developing and marketing the
Rambus memory interface has been and remains our top priority. But we
are willing to license our IP for other memory interface solutions as
well."
Rambus Inc. is an intellectual property company that designs, develops
and licenses high-bandwidth chip-connection technologies which enable
semiconductor memory devices to keep pace with faster generations of
processors and controllers. To date, these efforts have resulted in
more than 95 U.S. and foreign patents issued to Rambus. Rambus has
licensed its technology to over 30 semiconductor companies for the
development, manufacture and sale of Rambus-compatible ICs. Providers
of Rambus-based integrated circuits include the world's leading DRAM,
ASIC, controller and microprocessor manufacturers. There are more than
60 Rambus based systems shipping today, including Dell, Compaq,
Hewlett-Packard, and IBM PCs and workstations and the Sony
PlayStation(r)2 video game system. More information on Rambus Inc. and
its high bandwidth technologies is available at 
http://www.rambus.com
Rambus and RDRAM are registered trademarks of Rambus Inc
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vero che non c'è scritto che Rambus ha comprato i diritti per la
SdRam?
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Non vorrei piacere a tutti
avrei meno stima di me stesso
se piacessi a certa gente

 SdRam?
se  non erro c'e' scritto l'esatto contrario......
ovvero, se non ho capito male Toshiba ha comprato la licenza per alcuni
brevetti Rambus (interconnessione di chip a larga BW) per implementarli sui
chip e sui controller ddr.
ovvero ancora, sempre se non ho capito male, intel ha finalmente capito che
il futuro e' ddr e non rambus.
(nel caso contrario, com'e' nello stile intel, avrebbe fatto costruire
milioni di chip ddr salvo poi bloccarne la vendita intentando un processo
per violazione di proprieta' intellettuale)
ciao