Rambus Wins Brutal Patent Fight Against Nvidia

[Marcus Yam]

Patent fights are a Rambus specialty.

Rambus Wins Brutal Patent Fight Against Nvidia : Read more

 

[False_Dmitry_II]

The other 4%? PS3's.

 

[tethoma]

Every old tech geek knows that Rambus was proprietary memory that costs twice as much as equivalent memory, and it was abolished from ALL PC's by 2003.

Who the hell is Rambus now?

 

[pozaks]

A patent troll.

 

[jefe323]

got to love the patent trolls

/sarcasm

 

[Nightsilver]

Seriously, Rambus? I didn't even know the company still existed. Bunch of scavengers.

 

[danlw]

96% revenue from patent licensing royalties? Definitely a patent warehouse and not much of anything else. They earn a spot on my list of most disliked companies, along with Monster Cable, Bose, Comcast, and Apple.

 

[blurr91]

"According to Bloomberg, Rambus got about 96 percent of its $113 million in revenue last year from patent licensing royalties."

Wow...a company that survives on suing others... Words fail me.

 

[duckmanx88]

[citation][nom]danlw[/nom]96% revenue from patent licensing royalties? Definitely a patent warehouse and not much of anything else. They earn a spot on my list of most disliked companies, along with Monster Cable, Bose, Comcast, and Apple.[/citation]

if you're adding companies that have failed/ripped off consumers or have trolled you can add just about every other tech company on there. they've all done it at some point.

 

[thedreadfather]

"The ITC's decision is another demonstration of the value of our continued commitment to innovation," said Thomas Lavelle, senior vice president and general counsel at Rambus.

Explain to me how blocking the sale of microchips helps innovation. It isn't like nVidia is stealing revenue from Rambus but rather Rambus stockpiling patents to cash in. What a tool.

 

[wawa sxm]

[citation][nom]duckmanx88[/nom]if you're adding companies that have failed/ripped off consumers or have trolled you can add just about every other tech company on there. they've all done it at some point.[/citation]

yes but rambus strategie is to file patents then sue with no intention to ever release a product

 

[cruiseoveride]

milk 'em good.

 

[dogofwars]

"Patent fights are a Rambus specialty." I am sure they have a patent for that too.

 

[ta152h]

Rambus does release memory technologies, like XDR. Don't forget, RDRAM killed DDR for the Pentium 4 when it was out. They have, and do still make products that can be useful.

But, if I were the CEO of Rambus, I'd branch out and not only offer memory technologies, but legal services. They've got enough experience at it, and a pretty good track record.

Putting chumps like NVIDIA in there with Rambus is like putting a goldfish in with a piranha. NVIDIA is good with the bluster, but they are completely overmatched going up against Rambus legally. Hell, outside of Microsoft and maybe Intel, everyone is.

 

[jacobdrj]

When I grow up, I want to be a RAMBUS...

 

[figgus]

Remember, kids, Rambus is the same company that sued all the memory manufacturers for infringing on their patents.

Nevermind the fact that Rambus proposed all those patents be worked into the standard while they were on the JDEC committee, and that they hid the fact that they held those patents at the time.

Pretty shady, imo. I can't believe they weren't fined out of existence for illegal practices...

 

[HavoCnMe]

Rambus should change their name to Ram-u: Hard w/Sandpaper

 

[sykozis]

Rambus was funded by Intel for the RDRAM R&D...

 

[Guest]

Rambus: We Sue People!

 

[ravewulf]

"The ITC's decision is another demonstration of the value of our continued commitment to innovation,"

AKA making profits off of other companies' success instead of making your own successful product

 

[alextheawesome]

The wikipedia page for Rambus is hilarious.

 

[Drag0nR1der]

continued commitment to innovation

that made me chuckle.. Rambus haven't made any commitment to innovation, let alone a continued one. They were incredibly greedy and tried to milk a type of ram that was slightly ahead of its competitors, and now they have to rely on patent trolling for cash, pathetic.

 

[maxsp33d]

This should be the right quote "The ITC's decision is another demonstration of the value of our continued commitment to STOP innovation".

 

[melvis72]

RAMBUS: We Work Hard On Law Suits To Better The Future......NOT!!!!

 

[pharge]

[citation][nom]False_Dmitry_II[/nom]The other 4%? PS3's.[/citation]

According to the report on Engadget: "NVIDIA will now have to sign up for a license to Rambus' precious IP portfolio, which might be a tad bit costly given that GeForce, Quadro, nForce, Tesla and Tegra chips are named as being in violation -- aside from Ion, that's pretty much NVIDIA's whole hardware business."

I guess that 4% probably is belong to the profit from Ion.

http://www.engadget.com/2010/07/27/rambus-victorious-in-patent-fight-with-nvidia-can-expect-neat-w/