Rambus is hardly the most evil company out there these days. Creepy-as-fuck Google's desire to data mine the fucking stuffing out of everything everyone does makes shitty old Rambus look like a candidate for sainthood.
Eyebrow-raising that Rambus is deemed as excrement and **F___-able** when Chipzillah spends tens of billions of dollars buying IP and developing "open standards" (cough-cough) that we are forced to stomach ...
What do you mean by "inventing", exactly? You are commenting on an article devoted to the announcement of one of their products. They develop various semiconductor communications solutions, generally ones that conform to industry standards. It seems they also have some designs for implementing security algorithms.
@Yojimbo In this article it specifically mentions the controller offered here is a result of Rambus acquiring Northwest Technologies, so it's not a product developed inhouse, but something Rambus acquired. This only go to support OP's claim that Rambus mostly acquires, rebrand and sell.
But the point stands. Where was it claimed that they were inventing? OP's claim suggests they are falsely given invention credit where none seems to be given or claimed.
It supports nothing except that OP doesn't have any idea what he's talking about. The controller is from an acquired company, yes. The product includes a controller. So Intel does not develop anything in house because they acquired QLogic and put Omnipath on some of their processors?
Rambus buying up companies and selling patents is a dead approach. As tech consolidates to the big players none of them are going to licence from Rambus they will simply design their own solution. It's not like Intel, AMD, IBM, Samsung etc can't design their own version for cheap.
I wish the US would change the patent laws. If you don't make anything with said IP over x number of years you don't get to sue others for infringing on it. I mean it takes a hell of a lot more than this little bit of intellectual property to make actual shipping products.
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djboxbaba - Wednesday, November 13, 2019 - link
No RDRAM? :)Marlin1975 - Wednesday, November 13, 2019 - link
"Rambus did not disclose how much its PCIe 5.0 solution will cost to its licensees."No, you don't say. Fuck rambus and anything to do with their shitty company.
PeachNCream - Wednesday, November 13, 2019 - link
Rambus is hardly the most evil company out there these days. Creepy-as-fuck Google's desire to data mine the fucking stuffing out of everything everyone does makes shitty old Rambus look like a candidate for sainthood.surt - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
It was the beginning of the end for them when they decided 'don't be evil' had to go to allow some of their more profitable ventures.Andy Chow - Sunday, November 17, 2019 - link
100%Slash3 - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
x1,000Zizy - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
Eh, memory cartels and the various illegal agreements they do are about as shitty. So, their operation is about on par for the market :)Smell This - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
Eyebrow-raising that Rambus is deemed as excrement and **F___-able** when Chipzillah spends tens of billions of dollars buying IP and developing "open standards" (cough-cough) that we are forced to stomach ...
Azethoth - Friday, November 15, 2019 - link
Yeah I hope it is a hard pass from everyone on this. Starve them of the funds to keep doing shitty things and they eventually die off.yeeeeman - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
What is exactly this company inventing. I see it is buying companies and claiming the benefits.Yojimbo - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
What do you mean by "inventing", exactly? You are commenting on an article devoted to the announcement of one of their products. They develop various semiconductor communications solutions, generally ones that conform to industry standards. It seems they also have some designs for implementing security algorithms.MobiusPizza - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
@YojimboIn this article it specifically mentions the controller offered here is a result of Rambus acquiring Northwest Technologies, so it's not a product developed inhouse, but something Rambus acquired. This only go to support OP's claim that Rambus mostly acquires, rebrand and sell.
surt - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
But the point stands. Where was it claimed that they were inventing? OP's claim suggests they are falsely given invention credit where none seems to be given or claimed.Yojimbo - Friday, November 15, 2019 - link
It supports nothing except that OP doesn't have any idea what he's talking about. The controller is from an acquired company, yes. The product includes a controller. So Intel does not develop anything in house because they acquired QLogic and put Omnipath on some of their processors?gruggles - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
This is interesting, but it’s worth noting that Rambus is not a member of PCI-SIG. They have nothing on the PCI-SIG Integrators List either.FreckledTrout - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
Which is why they wont get any takers well and there really bad reputation.FreckledTrout - Thursday, November 14, 2019 - link
Rambus buying up companies and selling patents is a dead approach. As tech consolidates to the big players none of them are going to licence from Rambus they will simply design their own solution. It's not like Intel, AMD, IBM, Samsung etc can't design their own version for cheap.I wish the US would change the patent laws. If you don't make anything with said IP over x number of years you don't get to sue others for infringing on it. I mean it takes a hell of a lot more than this little bit of intellectual property to make actual shipping products.