Sunday, June 25, 2000

Rambus Hates You -- 11:14 am CST, Update by A.T. Hun

As if it weren't bad enough that Rambus memory just plain sucks, the company has found another way to make money and make consumers bleed until their white. According to this EBNews article, Rambus is going to use their patent arsenal to raise SDRAM and DDRAM prices to the point where Rambus can be competitive. Don't believe me? Here's a quote:

[Rambus VP Avo] Kanadjian said that as Rambus hammers out licensing deals with other companies, it will charge less for access to SDRAM than for emerging DDR SDRAM, which is perceived as the most likely competitor to the Direct Rambus interface.

"We will seek smaller royalty amounts for conventional [single-data-rate] SDRAM, but greater fees for DDR," he said.Asked if the payment plan was designed to head off a potential rival to Direct Rambus, Kanadjian replied, "I wouldn't argue with that conclusion."

So basically, we have a crappy technology but we will use our lawyers to ram it down your throat or, failing that, any other available orifice. It's one thing to be a total b@$t@rd, but it's another thing entirely to be smug about it. Thanks Slashdot.

News for 06/25/2000

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