Possible Rambus Antitrust Case
It seems everyone's favorite memory company Rambus is possibly being served with an antitrust complaint by major DRAM manufacturers according to Techweb (thanks Rosewood). This is being done because the DRAM manufacturers want the SDRAM interface patents to be declared illegal, and to block attempts that they'd have to pay Rambus for it. Recently Hitachi and Toshiba settled with Rambus, paying Rambus royalties for the SDRAM interface.
"However, far more is at stake," Merritt said. "When Rambus filed patent-infringement charges against Sega, an OEM chip customer, it opened Pandora's box. Suddenly every OEM customer of SDRAMs, DDR, chipsets, or microprocessors interfacing to synchronous memory is vulnerable to being sued by Rambus. Neither memory producers nor their customers can tolerate this unsettled situation, and it has to be resolved."
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