Terwijl geheugenfabrikanten nog nauwelijks zijn bekomen van de mogelijk implicaties van de SDRAM licentie deals tussen Rambus Inc., Hitachi en Toshiba, doet zich al weer een nieuwe 'bedreiging' voor in de vorm van het Canadese Mosaid Technologies. Dit bedrijf meent dat het de rechten heeft op de architectuur van een DRAM core. Volgens Mosaid zijn er de afgelopen maanden al licentie overeenkomsten gesloten met Hitachi, Fujitsu, NEC en Toshiba en zijn er onderhandelingen gaande met 8 andere geheugenfabrikanten. Enige tijd geleden stond Mosaid op het punt om de SLDRAM standaard te introduceren. Deze standaard had een alternatief moeten worden voor Direct Rambus DRAM:
Mosaid Technologies Inc., an Ottowa, Canada memory designer, is claiming that it holds rights to DRAM core technology and is pursuing licensing deals with the bulk of the DRAM industry. The company today struck a license deal with Hitachi Ltd. and in the past 16 months claims to have landed similar agreements with Fujitsu Ltd., NEC Corp., and Toshiba Corp.
[...] The company's disclosure comes on the heels of a patent issue that Rambus, Mountain View, Calif., has undertaken with DRAM manufacturers over the use of a synchronous memory interface. While Mosaid's patent assertsions pertain to the chip's core architecture, Rambus is laying claim to the chip-to-chip connection between the DRAM and other components.
[...] The company's disclosure comes on the heels of a patent issue that Rambus, Mountain View, Calif., has undertaken with DRAM manufacturers over the use of a synchronous memory interface. While Mosaid's patent assertsions pertain to the chip's core architecture, Rambus is laying claim to the chip-to-chip connection between the DRAM and other components. [break] De press release van Mosaid schets (vanzelfsprekend) een erg vriendelijk beeld van de situatie. Een quote..: [/break] "The cornerstone for the success of our patent licensing program is our strong patent portfolio, which we continue to strengthen. We believe it is impractical for anyone to design a competitive embedded or commodity DRAM without using MOSAID’s intellectual property," said Dan Mathers, Senior Vice President of MOSAID and General Manager of its Semiconductor Division. "These technologies, particularly embedded DRAM, are very important for the rapidly growing high performance system-on-a-chip market. This patent licensing program also puts MOSAID is in a unique position, with our intellectual property being a source of tremendous competitive advantage. Not only do these agreements protect us from future patent infringement claims from these licensees in our fabless semiconductor activities, but they represent a significant source of research and development funding for our networking chips."
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