FROM To co, acc DATE TIME ‘SUBJECT ATTACHMENT BODY Geoff Tate ‘roberts @rambus.com, mooring@rambus.com, toprani@rambus.com ‘State@rambus.com 11081997 21:13:38 Proposed response(s) to LG's royalty requests memo for bd sun meeting this thursday lets discuss at mgt staf 1. re-iterate warrants for being among leaders in productizing rambus 2. revterate free asic license «have they signed yet: any issue? - what is their plan for holding up their end of the deal: offering rambus-asie's and marketing?? 3.,ac royalty remaining constant as chip integrates - point out that the rac is growing in capability and we continue to license new capabilities; ‘and number of racs is going up base rac 500mhz = SOOMB/sec direct rac 800mhz = 1.6GB/sec mt: trae m2: 2racs ‘So chip level bandwidth up from SOOME/s->3.2GB/s for same royalty rate! 4. request to lower rambus-2 dram royalty rate to 1.5% from 2% for 2002+ = LG has been the most positive dram partner to intel and visiting customers! saying NO seems like a bad idea given this POSSIBILITIES 1. say yes AS LONG AS they are one of the top 3 sellers ($ market share) of RDRAMs in any given quarter 2002+ 2. yes AS LONG AS >50% of their shipments are rambus drams 31.5% IF their RDRAM price in 2002+ is less than 5% more than SDRAM-100 price; then the royalty goes up 0.1% for every 1% price premium to a maximum of 2% 4. te to their aggressive marketing/availablity/pricing in 1998/1999 5. tie to agreement to NOT do ddr/sidram and public announcement ofthis NOW 6. tie to agreement to pay us royalties on any memory chips they sell infringing our patents at say 3%? GET them to have mun present to parker that their pricing on direct rdram will be 5% in 1999+? WILD IDEA: offer them samsung's 1% royalty rate from 2002+ IF they are in {top 3 AND >20% of sales are rdrams; and IF they do NOT DO ddr/sidram/agree to pay us 3% royalties on them?? gett 5. patent claims = does anyone understand what ms choi is asking for? Geoff Tate Rambus ‘Tel NEW AREA CODE: 650-903-3807 FAX NEW AREA CODE: 650-965-1528 “NOTE: THIS EMAIL MAY CONTAIN RAMBUS CONFIDENTIAL INFORMATION" RH 387767 R 235273 ‘OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY ‘ex0966-001