Rambus' Back; Aims to Supercharge Mobiles

[Marcus Yam]

Rambus will demo its Mobile Memory Initiative at DesignCon 2009 this week, a new RAM technology focuses on high-bandwidth, low-power memory technologies targeted at achieving data rates of 4.3 Gbps

Rambus' Back; Aims to Supercharge Mobiles : Read more

 

[benrandolph]

This just in. Rambus isnt actually going to make anything useful...they're just going to take out all the patents and then later sue any other company with similar ideas.

whoa....deja vu

 

[Kary]

"Rambus says that it is targeting data rates of 4.3 Gbps, which could facilitate more than 17 GB of memory bandwidth from a single DRAM."

Is this 32 bit memory? (That's the only way I can get the math to work out to just 17GB/s)

 

[Tekkamanraiden]

Yeah I was really hoping they were out of business. Guess this is what they are spending are the 'sue' money on.

 

[Kary]

"Rambus is Back; Aims to Supercharge Mobiles"

Lol, I can't believe I missed the "Super charge"

 

[Guest]

Rambus needs to go away, they don't do anything useful, and their technology is crap. They patent simple ideas that any other company would've allowed to be an open standard, and then siphon money off the backs of companies that actually do something. I'm sure that their patent process goes something like this:

1. Predict what direction the memory industry will head in.
2. Patent anything that isn't already patented.
3. Tirelessly scour everybody elses white papers looking for a reason to sue.

 

[roofus]

I hate to see any company fail but this is one that would be a welcomed exception. What I dont understand is how did they develop something new? Didn't they trade their R&D for a team of patent lawyers?