EBN schrijft dat een grote SDRAM producent volgend jaar aanzienlijk minder royalties hoeft te betalen aan Rambus over SDRAM geheugen. De gelukkige fabrikant is waarschijnlijk Samsung, werelds grootste SDRAM producent.
Reden hiervoor is een clausule in de overeenkomst tussen Rambus en Samsung die zegt dat Samsung mag stoppen met het betalen van royalties als een concurrent die hetzelfde product maakt volgens een rechtbank geen inbreuk op de patenten van Rambus maakt. Dit was dus het geval met Infineon die twee maanden geleden met succes de rechten van Rambus aanvocht. Volledig stoppen met betalen aan Rambus zal Samsung niet. In plaats van royalties zal het bedrijf elk kwartaal een bedrag op de rekening van Rambus storten. Verwacht wordt dat andere SDRAM producenten zullen volgen:
Danny Lam, chip analyst with Communications and Computing Reports, New York, said even if Samsung isn't the chip firm getting the SDRAM royalty relief from Rambus, the Korean company should be able to claim the same deal under its "most favored nation" clause granting it any lower rates that Rambus gives any other licensee. The "most favored nation" clause in the Samsung licensing pact was also revealed during the Infineon trial.
Lam said it is likely other Rambus SDRAM licensees also have "most favored nation" safeguards, which are common in royalty agreements. That could trigger more demands by Rambus licensees to get the same reduced single quarterly payment relief, he added.
I can't possibly understand why 64 bit colour but we will wait and see is it going to be a part on new DirectX 9. I am sure that Nvidia, ATI and Kyro would be happy to have this since it will approve expensive cards with expensive chips and really expansive memory with 600 MHz in DDR.
The Virtual Help Desk software sells for hundreds of thousands of dollars per copy and is tailored to corporate computer networks with more than 10,000 users. The program is intended to run on a company's network server and can be accessed by employees via a Web browser, said Richards.
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At a recent conference in Santa Barbara, Calif., sponsored by Credit Suisse First Boston (CSFB), one of the hot topics was storage virtualization. Virtualization of disk has been around for a while. Large-scale storage array manufacturers use virtualization to aggregate multiple physical hard disks into virtual volumes that can be presented as logical disks to the operating systems of attached servers. The operating system thinks it is looking at a single, very large, hard disk drive. In fact, it is seeing an aggregation of many physical drives whose read/write accesses are managed by a sophisticated array controller.
If honored, the request would mean that the government could go forward with the case immediately rather than waiting until mid-August. The government would otherwise have to wait 52 days from the Court of Appeals' June 28 decision before the case would return to the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia.
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De anonimiteit is gewaarborgd, zo belooft de BSA op de site. Bezoekers worden via een aantal schermen door de meldingsprocedure geleid. Zij kunnen kiezen of het een bedrijf of organisatie betreft die illegale software gebruikt, een dealer die illegale software verspreidt of dat het gaat om illegale software die via het net wordt aangeboden.
