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One would not have expected this to happen after the recent loss Rambus suffered against NVIDIA, but the two appear to have decided to drop all actions and just sign a license agreement.
Long story short, NVIDIA and Rambus have signed a patent license agreement that covers a broad range of integrated circuit (IC) ... |
8 February 2012
10:02 GMT |
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After losing a major patent against NVIDIA, Rambus has announced that it has acquired a privately-held memory technology company, complete with its own special portfolio.
Rambus has managed to get Unity Semiconductor to sign a deal through which the latter becomes part of the former in exchange for $35 million in c... |
6 February 2012
08:51 GMT |
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Rambus is one of the few, if not the only, company that we have no problem calling a patent troll, but it looks like the troll isn't going to be laughing for much longer, if it even is at this point.
The so-called licensing company has just lost one of three major patents used in a battle against NVIDIA, marki... |
30 January 2012
08:53 GMT |
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Rambus is one of those companies that don't make products but own patents and often sue other companies over alleged infringement, but it looks like its own record isn't really spotless either. To put it in layman terms, Rambus has a habit of stocking up on patents and then waiting until a product suppose... |
22 December 2011
10:00 GMT |
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Rambus has been locked in a lawsuit against Micron and Hynix over whether or not the latter two conspired to keep its RDRAM out of the market through price fixing.
Now, a verdict has finally been reached, one that, though it may and will be appealed, sided with the defendants.
During the late nineties, Rambus was t... |
17 November 2011
16:51 GMT |
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Rambus is one of the most infamous patent trolls out there, but it looks like, this once, it was able to rake in some profits without any settlement payments.
Rambus made the news quite a few times last year, and the years before, for how it got into patent litigations with a whole bunch of companies.
As such, it... |
21 October 2011
20:01 GMT |
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It looks like a certain technology licensing company, known for the many lawsuits it had or has with various IT player, cannot exactly claim to have gone through the most stellar of financial quarters.While Intel and Advanced Micro Devices are known for its central processing units (and graphics adapters in the case... |
22 April 2011
04:59 GMT |
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It seems that, when it's not suing companies left and right, Rambus actually does come up with technologies that IT players want to use, as proven by Toshiba, who just signed a five-year agreement with it.No doubt that, in most cases, if an end-users know the name Rambus it is because of the many lawsuits it wa... |
16 March 2011
09:19 GMT |
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Rambus may be better known for all the lawsuits it started and is still holding against various IT companies, but it seems that the company is still very much working on new technologies, such as differential signaling for SoC-to-memory interfaces.Rambus's most recent press announcement deals with its newest b... |
31 January 2011
11:11 GMT |
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As one may have already realized, the winter holidays somehow manage to act as a sort of signal for the emergence of new lawsuits, one of which, started by Rambus against a whole set of chip makers, has begun to be formally addressed by the US ITC.Some time ago, on December 1 to be more specific, Rambus filed patent... |
30 December 2010
05:21 GMT |
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Rambus just announced today that it had renewed its patent license agreement with Renesas Electronics Corporation, enabling the Japanese company to use Rambus patented innovations in a broad range of its logic integrated circuits.
Hailed as the next big thing in computer memory back in 1999, in the Pentium III day... |
27 December 2010
09:13 GMT |
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Although it initially started as a very respectable memory manufacturer, Rambus seems to have slightly changed its focus over the past few years, the company filing more patent lawsuits than launching really innovative products lately, and for this reason, some companies, such as Elpida, prefer to go ahead and pay th... |
6 December 2010
13:31 GMT |
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It seems that filing lawsuits during the holiday season is starting to become a sort of tradition now that Rambus has once again called a number of companies to court, one of them being, some might say unsurprisingly, NVIDIA.Rambus has been meeting the likes of NVIDIA, IBM and others in court for years and it seems ... |
2 December 2010
02:17 GMT |
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Patent company Rambus, now well known for the many court actions it has filed against a variety of IT players, has once again taken it upon itself to sue IBM over alleged patent infringement, even though the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO) already issued a ruling in the latter's favor.Rambus is known f... |
25 August 2010
05:45 GMT |
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NVIDIA and Rambus have been locked in a patent litigation for a while, but the verdict given by the ITC late last month seems to have finally tipped the scales, giving Rambus an apparent advantage that appears to have persuaded NVIDIA to license some of its patents, though the licensing company still hasn't dro... |
13 August 2010
10:59 GMT |
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Nowadays, Rambus is mostly known for the many legal disputes it is involved in, the most notable of which is the one against NVIDIA. Still, such lawsuits would not exactly sprout if the licensing company didn't actually have the patents to show for it. Seemingly in order to prove this, the company has come forth... |
28 July 2010
09:29 GMT |
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As some end-users may know, NVIDIA and Rambus have been locked in a patent infringement lawsuit for quite a few months now. This legal battle is centered around Rambus' claim that certain products that the GPU maker has on sale, such as graphics, media and applications processors, infringe several of its patent... |
27 July 2010
05:21 GMT |
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Late last year, as well as during the first quarter of 2010, Rambus' earnings received significant boosts from its patent lawsuits. This allowed the technology licensing company to post a fairly high revenue for the January-March period. Now, in absence of these settlement payments, Rambus was unable to match th... |
23 July 2010
05:15 GMT |
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Rambus seems to be one of those firms that go through all life experiences at once. On the one hand, it unveiled a new patent for mobile XDR memory and even got $900 million for signing a license agreement with Samsung back in January. On the other hand, the licensing company is locked in a legal battle with NVIDIA, ... |
1 April 2010
05:12 GMT |
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Skies may look like they're clearing for NVIDIA, now that the GPU maker is finally getting around to launching its DirectX 11 graphics cards. However, not all clouds seem ready to disperse, as the patent litigations with Rambus are still very much alive and kicking. In fact, back in January, the International Tr... |
26 March 2010
07:53 GMT |
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Rambus has proudly unveiled its Mobile XDR architecture, which promises to yield mobile memory with a higher bandwidth at a lower power consumption. The technology is based on the innovations brought about by the Mobile Memory Initiative introduced last year. This architecture will supposedly enable a memory bandwidt... |
8 February 2010
08:52 GMT |
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The more recent episode in the drawn-out legal battle between NVIDIA and Rambus saw the latter win a victory when Judge Theodore Essex with the U.S. International Trade Commission in Washington said NVIDIA infringed three Rambus patents. However, in a separate proceeding, the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office is takin... |
27 January 2010
03:32 GMT |
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Rambus lost a fight against the GPU maker back in late October, when the U.S. Patent Office decided that the former's claims that NVIDIA had violated its patents were groundless. While this development reinforced NVIDIA's confidence that it would win, Rambus was not deterred. Now, just after the latter stuf... |
23 January 2010
04:15 GMT |
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Rambus has sued quite a number of companies, such as NVIDIA, Micron, Hynix and Samsung. When NVIDIA won a victory in its litigation with Rambus back in November, the latter did not seem in any way willing to halt its efforts. In a stunning turn of events, the story of Rambus' legal actions has developed in a rat... |
20 January 2010
05:55 GMT |
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Rambus' situation hasn't exactly been on the rise lately, with its finances seeing consecutive unfavorable quarters and most of its legal issues still alive and well. Arguably, the only real favorable development was finally settling things with the European Commission last week. Still, even though its fina... |
15 December 2009
08:15 GMT |
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Rambus has finally seen the end of the three long years of being under the sharp eye of the European Commission. The technology-licensing company has been under investigation since 2007, when certain DRAM makers filed complaints it, concerning, among other things, Rambus' participation in the Joint Electron Devi... |
9 December 2009
08:19 GMT |
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In the wake of having its patent claims against NVIDIA denied in court, Rambus saw some favorable developments in the decision of Samsung Electronics Co. to start the manufacture of XDR DRAM memory chips. Through this development, Rambus's technology will finally begin to see more widespread availability, after ... |
4 December 2009
05:25 GMT |
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Yesterday, the U.S. Patent Office decided that Rambus' accusations against NVIDIA, according to which the latter had manufactured products that violated its patents, were groundless. Although, predictably, Rambus responded to this dismissal of accusations by stating that the patents were still “enforceable... |
25 November 2009
04:28 GMT |
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In an attempt to provide the IT market with a boost of performance for notebook, desktop and server systems, Rambus and Kingston Technology have announced today a partnership for the development of a threaded module prototype that takes advantage of the specifications of DDR3 DRAM technology. According to a recent pr... |
17 September 2009
09:21 GMT |
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Rambus, a leading technology licensing company focusing on high-speed memory architectures, recently announced its Mobile Memory Initiative. According to the company, this initiative is focused on the development of high-bandwidth, low-power memory technologies designed to achieve data rates of 4.3Gbps, also offering... |
3 February 2009
07:03 GMT |
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The U.S Supreme Court has been asked by the Federal Trade Commission to intervene in a case in which Rambus, a memory maker known for its legal actions against some of the major players on the hardware computer market, is accused to have demonstrated anticompetitive behavior and deceived the Joint Electron Devic... |
25 November 2008
11:14 GMT |
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Earlier this year, when things started to look very bad for the Santa Clara, California-based graphics maker NVIDIA, we reported on a lawsuit involving both the green company and Rambus. Back then, Rambus sued NVIDIA for an alleged infringement of 17 patents, including memory controllers for SDR, DDR, DDR2, DDR3, GDD... |
7 November 2008
07:08 GMT |
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Here is a business plan that some might consider twice before putting into practice: create a company that can obtain numerous technology patents and license technologies for which it has no production facilities to work on. Said company will then engage in a number of lawsuits that will be quickly settled through a ... |
11 July 2008
05:16 GMT |
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Rambus has inked two new and important licensing deals with IBM and Spansion on the DRAM market. The memory specialist has just announced that it licensed IBM its multi-protocol serial/deserializer (SerDes) cell technology that offers improved performance in networking, server and general ASIC applications.According... |
25 April 2008
06:39 GMT |
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Rambus has just announced that it has shipped more than 50 million XDR DRAM memory chips worldwide. XDR memory chips use a patented chip architecture that makes it the most powerful memory type in the world, based on some of the company's innovations on the memory playground. The company's XDR memory chips ... |
31 March 2008
12:10 GMT |
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Memory chips manufacturer Rambus has just won in the patent infringement lawsuit against its competitors, after about ten years of trials. According to the jury investigating the case, Rambus was not found guilty of monopolistic practices against its competitors by patenting technologies that imposed themselves as st... |
27 March 2008
18:41 GMT |
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Rambus have announced that Toshiba would buy their XDR memory controller interface licence to be included in Toshiba's new generation of HDTV chipsets. The XDR memory architecture operates at 4.8 Gbps and will allow Toshiba to deliver unmatched image processing performance for their high-definition television li... |
19 December 2007
05:18 GMT |
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The Terabyte Bandwidth Initiative (TBI) is now official, as Rambus has succeeded in delivering their first functional TBI prototype to feature data rates of 16Gbps at a bandwidth of one terabyte per second (TB/s). Rambus will be the first to implement the technology on the current world's fastest memory, the Ra... |
28 November 2007
05:33 GMT |
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Rambus is to announce on Wednesday their Terabyte Bandwidth Initiative (TBI) that is supposed to raise the memory bandwidth to one terabyte for multiple-core systems. This speed could be achieved by using 16 DRAM channels able to transfer 14 Gbps with 4 bytes clock data. Summing up, this would result in a total amou... |
26 November 2007
08:43 GMT |
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Elpida Memory just announced that it has begun field testing engineering samples of XDR random access memory chips that are running at an impressive 4.8GHz, over twice the speed of the fastest available DDR3 memory module that is currently available on the market.The XDR memory chips developed and manufactured by Elp... |
6 October 2007
05:31 GMT |
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It is widely believed, thank you rumor spreaders, that Sun Microsystems is looking to expand its business reach into the field of random access memory by bidding for the Rambus company which is specialized in the development of memory technologies, even if it does not directly produce memory modules. While the acquis... |
13 September 2007
05:42 GMT |
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After the European Commission officially charged Intel with unethical business practices and monopoly behavior, it is now the turn of the computer memory designer and developer Rambus to face charges of "patent ambush" as the company is accused of claiming higher than reasonable royalties from manufacturers that were... |
25 August 2007
07:43 GMT |
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Rambus is a quite small company that is developing different types of technologies and then sells or licenses them to different computer hardware producers like Intel, AMD and so on. Rambus became known a few years back, in the golden days of the Intel Pentium 4s and the AMD's Athlon XP series. Back then, there ... |
26 July 2007
06:25 GMT |
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