Friday, March 16, 2001

RAMBUS: This Time for Sure -- 6:43 pm CST, Update by A.T. Hun

Now it's definite. The judge in the RAMBUS v. Infineon lawsuit has limited the scope of RAMBUS' patents. Here's a snip:

A judge has limited the scope of Rambus Inc.'s patents for the forthcoming court case against Infineon Technologies AG as a result of a series of rulings at a hearing held in Richmond, Va., last Wednesday. U.S. District Judge Robert Payne followed up with a memorandum opinion on Thursday.

In the memorandum opinion, the judge decided to go with a narrower interpretation of the patents than Rambus' (nasdaq: RMBS) attorneys had sought.

This is a significant legal blow for RAMBUS. If Infineon can win this legal struggle, it opens the door for Micron and Hyundai to be similarly successful. According to this Reuters report:

The bulk of Rambus's revenues are composed of royalty payments from the chipmakers who use its synchronous dynamic random access memory (SDRAM) and Rambus dynamic random access memory (RDRAM) technology.

If that is true, losing the lawsuits will be catastrophic. If this results in RAMBUS' burial, I will be the first one there with a shovel. As it is, their stock took another beating on the NASDAQ today, closing 34% lower at 15 13/16 off 8 9/32. Keep in mind that their 52 week high is 135. Can you say, "3dfx"?

News for 03/16/2001

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