[CoSD]Headbangertje schrijft: "Een aantal DRAM-fabrikanten zijn volgens 'high-level industry sources' een antitrustzaak tegen Rambus aan het voorbereiden met de steun van de Federal Trade Comission. Het doel is het ongeldig laten verklaren van de Rambus synchronous timing patenten en verdere pogingen van Rambus om de grote geheugenfabrikanten geld voor hun SDRAM te laten betalen in de te kiem smoren.":
Major DRAM manufacturers are quietly planning to file an industry antitrust complaint against Rambus Inc. with the Federal Trade Commission, according to high-level industry sources last week.
The move would be a pre-emptive strike to have Rambus' synchronous-DRAM interface patents declared unenforceable. The biggest memory makers also want to block further attempts by Rambus to force them to pay royalties on their mainstream SDRAMs, double-data-rate SDRAMs, and logic controllers with synchronous interfaces.
Rambus last month said it planned to seek royalties from any company using its patented synchronous-memory technology in a sweeping claim aimed at virtually all DRAM vendors and a number of other chip suppliers. Toshiba Corp. and Hitachi Ltd. have since separately agreed to license the patents and pay Rambus unspecified royalties.
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