From 22? Sat Jan 10 21:28:03 1998 Received: from intmail (neta rambus.com (192.86.86.1)) by jupiterambus.com (8.8 Shub-sunos) with SMTP id PAA2S884, Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:29:58 -0800 (PST) Message-Id: <3.0.3.32.199801 10152702,007408S0@ inmail> X-Sender:jkarp@intmail X-Maller: QUALCOMM Windows Eudora Pro Version 3.03 (32) Date: Sat, 10 Jan 1998 15:27:02 -0800 To: Geoff Tate From Joel Karp Subject: Re: stategy te bela Ce: exee@rambus.com {a-Reply-To: <3.0.32.19980210121411,00605580@198,147.244.4> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: texventiched: charset="us-ascii” X-UIDL: £24310 le2ade2baddd f5585ae6cbabe ‘At 12:14 PM 1/1098 -0800, you wrote 4) show that beloit cannot scale up to provide rimm-800 performance, show performanceicost of beloit-dér. dar sdrams (per intl) are 5% more expensive than sdrams (presumably due to larger cores for 2x bandwith) beloitddr effective bandwidth probably about 1/2 of rimm-800. so it might bbe used fora while but isnt a long term replacement. also ddr infringes ‘our patents (question: do we star stating this publicly<‘bold>). itcould be possible to do further dram design specifically for beloit to get more performance but (i think) this approach isnot going tobe able to Fesule ‘na solution that is same performance as direct RIN 800. Geoit, {Lam very uncomfortable with any public statements regarding who or what ininges our patents. All we dois start a war withthe entire industry As long as we approach companies individually and without any publicity, ‘they will not be motivated 10 help each other against us. Once one or t¥0 sigh up o strategic icenses i will be much easier to license the thers but public pronouncements only stimulate a lot of negative ‘emotions towards Rambus. Just my 2 cents worth. RH 386376 R 233882 ‘OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY ‘cx0988-001a Joel Karp Rambus 2468 Latham St Mountain View, CA 94080 Tel: 650-528-4882 FAX: 650.965-1528 RH 386377 R 233883 (OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY “ex0988-002