Geoff Tate Thursday, August 14, 1997 11:16 PM ‘mooring; fleming gtate parkerigelsinger; ddr crush plan dave - need to get our 30-days-later meeting scheduled with, parkerigelsinger. should be due in 1-2 weeks | think. timing should be ‘goad to talk about my meetings with samsungyig/hitechiimicron and about ‘your/laura's meetings with intel on plans to increase dram partner motivation. we should go for a buy-in/close at the parkerigelsinger meeting so we can go to samsungetc to propose plans knowing they are bought in also, | think we need to make it clear fo them that we aren't going to make any significant further changes in our business deal with them without their decision they are not doing a ddr backup chipset period. thelr saying they would do one would swamp any of our efforts to motivate cambus. dram pariners. and they have no resources to do a parallel chipset - so what could happen is ddr becomes the POR and we are pushed out and they go into breach on our deat ‘we should ask parker/getsinger if anyone in the dram industry has shown them a ddr demo like we have a rimmfire demo and if notwhy nol?: if they are even going to think about ddr why would they say “let's do a chipset” rather than say “let's do a checkout chip on the basic technology firs’ tell samsung/etc to go build a test chip with a ddr-RAC-equivalent logic cchip and ddr sgrams/ddr sdrams and prove they know how to make them run, ‘reliably at 200-250Mhz* ‘my concer if we dont put our cards on the table is that parker goes “hey, why not do a ddr backup chipset - rambus is doing everything we are asking ‘them to do and if do the ddr backup chipset i get some insurance and make ‘samsung happy besides”. they need to know thal a ddr backup chipset is first real bad for their objectives and second one that we cannot accept under our ariginal make-us-king deal seat PS. if you want tony to educate you on our double-data-rate/327 and pll-on-a-memory-device patents/481, he's ready willing and able. but he shouldn't be the one to meet with a pete or dennis, Geoff Tale Rambus Tel NEW AREA CODE: 650-903-3807 FAX NEW AREA CODE: 650-965-1528 “NOTE: THIS EMAIL MAY CONTAIN RAMBUS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION Confidential ~ FTC Docket No. 9302 RFO731161 ‘cx0046-001