Rambus Legal Win

June 16, 2000 10:02 AM

Tech-Report is reporting that there has been an upset in the memory industry, as Toshiba has acknowledged they've been using Rambus patented technologies for its high-speed memory for a couple of years now. They have now entered into a license agreement, which is bad news for all of us who hoped for lower RAM prices.

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.

SDRAM so far has been the cheapest RAM, but it looks like it's gonna change, at least from Toshiba but it's pretty likely others will (have to) follow. Here's the full announcement by Rambus.