Bad performance lowers returns Apr 21, 2008
Rambus Inc. ranked 33 with a respectable return of 9. 7 percent. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
Asian Stocks Fall for First Time in Five Days; Toyota, Commonwealth Drop Mar 27, 2008
South Korea's slumped after a U.S. federal court ruled yesterday that Rambus Inc. won the final phase of its patent suit against the company. U.S. Economy. (Bloomberg -- Asia)
EU fines Microsoft $1.4b for overcharging Feb 28, 2008
The commission, known for vetoing General Electric Co.'s proposed $US47 billion ($50 billion) merger with Honeywell International Inc. in 2001, has ramped up its oversight of US technology companies such as Intel Corp., Rambus Inc. and Qualcomm Inc. in recent years. Last July the regulator charged Intel with abusing its dominance in the computer-chip market. (Sydney Morning Herald -- Business)
Rambus Picks Verigy V93000 HSM Series for Testing Next-Generation Ultra-High-Speed Memory Devices Feb 26, 2008
--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- (NASDAQ: - ), a premier semiconductor test company, today announced that Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: - ), the leader in high-speed memory architectures, has selected the Verigy for advanced testing of its XDR memory architecture, the fastest production memory technology on the market today ... Rambus and the Rambus logo are registered trademarks of Rambus Inc. XDR is a trademark of Rambus Inc. All other trade names are the service marks, trademarks, or registered trademarks of their... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Rambus Sees $97-a-Share Victory Over Hynix in Memory-Chip Patent Trial Jan 31, 2008
Jan. 30 (Bloomberg) -- Rambus Inc., the designer of chips for Sony Corp.'s PlayStation video-game console, might collect royalties of as much as $10 billion, six times its market value, by winning a seven-year fight with Hynix Semiconductor Inc. ... The case is Hynix Semiconductor Inc. v. Rambus Inc., 00-cv- 20905, U.S. District Court, Northern District of California (San Jose). (Bloomberg)
Rambus Unveils Ground-Breaking Terabyte Bandwidth Initiative Nov 28, 2007
Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS), one of the world's premier technology licensing companies specializing in high-speed memory architectures, today unveiled its Terabyte Bandwidth Initiative ... "We will drive memory signaling technology to performance levels that are an order of magnitude greater than what can be achieved today, said Kevin Donnelly, senior vice president of engineering at Rambus Inc. "Continuing the Rambus tradition of innovation, our engineers and scientists have pioneered new... (WELT ONLINE)
See all SEMICONDUCTOR News Nov 27, 2007
At its developer conference in Japan, Rambus Inc. is expected to demonstrate technologies that could enable links to memory chips delivering at up to a terabyte/second, showing a potentially lower cost alternative to 3D chip stacking. Monday's other top stories. (EETimes)
Rambus loss shrinks on lower legal costs Nov 1, 2007
(10/31/2007 5:05 PM EDT). (Adds details, share price). (EETimes)
Toshiba Demos SpursEngine Processor Powered Qosmio Notebooks Oct 7, 2007
Toshiba Demos SpursEngine Processor Powered Qosmio Notebooks. Toshiba, Japanese Consumer Electronics maker, has displayed few prototype Qosmio laptops that come with a multimedia co-processor, named the SpursEngine. (TechGadgets.in)
Elpida Introduces the World's Fastest DRAM Based on the Rambus XDR Memory Architecture Oct 5, 2007
--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Elpida Memory, Inc. (Elpida) (Tokyo Stock Exchange Code 6665), Japan's leading global supplier of Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) and Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq: - ), one of the world's premier technology licensing companies specializing in high-speed chip architectures, today introduced the industry's fastest DRAM, the 512 Megabit (Mb), 4 ... Rambus and the Rambus logo are registered trademarks of Rambus Inc. XDR and FlexPhase are trademarks of Rambus Inc. All other trade names... (Yahoo! Wire -- Entertainment News)
Toshiba Demonstrar Prottipo do Novo Processador "SpursEngine(TM)" na CEATEC JAPAN 2007 Sep 22, 2007
uma marca comercial da Rambus Inc. os Estados Unidos e outros pa. ses. (BusinessWire)
Microsoft Loses European Court Appeal Sep 18, 2007
Other large U.S. companies now under close scrutiny by antitrust regulators in Europe include Intel Corp. (INTC) and Rambus Inc. (RMBS). Sun's complaints. (SmartMoney)
Microsoft Loses Most of Its Appeal Against European Union Antitrust Order Sep 17, 2007
She is also probing Intel Corp., Rambus Inc. and Qualcomm Inc., all of which dominate markets or hold key patents. Microsoft, which reached a settlement with U.S. authorities in 2002, argued regulators shouldn't be allowed to force it to help rivals. (Bloomberg -- US)
EU Microsoft ruling will set tone for the future Sep 15, 2007
Experts say an affirmation of the European Commission's 2004 order and record 497 million euro ($613 million) fine could embolden regulators as they pursue probes of Intel Corp., Rambus Inc. and Qualcomm Inc., among others ... Last month, the Commission charged Rambus Inc. with antitrust abuse, alleging the memory chip designer demanded "unreasonable" royalties for its patents that it said were fraudulently set as industry standards. (MSNBC -- International)
EU Court to Deliver Microsoft Ruling Sep 15, 2007
Experts say an affirmation of the European Commission's 2004 order and record 497 million euro ($613 million) fine could embolden regulators as they pursue probes of Intel Corp., Rambus Inc. and Qualcomm Inc., among others. Top Technology ce stories. (ABC News -- Wire)
Stocks to Watch, Sept. 10: Take-Two Interactive,... Sep 10, 2007
Rambus Inc. () said it has reached a settlement agreement over a class-action securities lawsuit filed against the chipmaker in July of last year. The lawsuit focused on options grants and related disclosures. (Fox News)
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com - Stocks to Watch, Aug. 27: Marsh & McLennan Cos. Send news tip to FOXNews. (Fox News)
* Chip maker Rambus hit by antitrust abuse charge Aug 24, 2007
Taipei Times - archives. Chen Lung-chu on Taiwan Status. (Taipei Times, Taiwan -- Business)
Rambus gets preliminary European antitrust notice Aug 23, 2007
(08/22/2007 5:34 PM EDT). NEW YORK The European Commission will review complaints accusing Rambus Inc of violating European competition law, the computer technology company said Wednesday (Aug. (EETimes)
Former Brocade CEO guilty of backdating charges Aug 8, 2007
Many Silicon Valley companies including Apple Computer Inc., McAfee Inc., Sycamore Networks Inc. and Rambus Inc., have been under investigation for their stock option practices around the late 1990s, a time when technology companies competed fiercely for top executive talent. Backdating may have helped companies like Brocade attract employees, but it also cost investors millions of dollars, the government says. (ITworld -- News)
Rambus CEO's Wife Used Online Alias to Criticize Former GC Aug 2, 2007
But one highly litigious Silicon Valley company has taken the internal probe in a new direction: The board of embattled Rambus Inc. hired a pricey outside law firm to investigate its CEO's wife. Nancy Hughes -- the apparently quite protective spouse of CEO Harold Hughes -- spent much of the past year posting messages under an alias on an online message board for Rambus investors. (Law.com)
Rambus Wins Partial Reprieve From FTC Mar 21, 2007
Rambus Inc. (RMBS) late Monday said the Federal Trade Commission has stayed portions of its remedy order, clarifying that the company isn't restricted from collecting royalties for the use of some of its technologies in the past. In its order, the FTC also said that Rambus isn't required to refund royalties already paid. (SmartMoney)
Wall Street heads toward mixed open following housing data Mar 21, 2007
In corporate news, Rambus Inc., which makes memory chip products, reported after the closing bell Monday that the Federal Trade Commission said an earlier order wouldn't stop the company from collecting royalties for the use of its technologies in the past, nor does the company have to refund royalties it has already collected. Affiliated Computer Services Inc.'s founder and chairman said he and an investment partner have made a bid to acquire the provider of information technology services for... (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Business)
Antitrust ruling delayed, allowing Rambus to appeal Mar 20, 2007
WASHINGTON The Federal Trade Commission has temporarily suspended portions of its earlier rulings against Rambus Inc., allowing Rambus to appeal the agency's recent antitrust rulings ... Saying it wanted to preserve competition in the memory market, the FTC set maximum royalty rates for some Rambus Inc. technologies and ordered the intellectual-property vendor to establish internal procedures to ensure full disclosure of its patents and patent applications to standards groups. (EETimes)
IP Litigators: Worth Their Weight in Gold? Mar 15, 2007
9 million award in a case against Rambus Inc. (Daniel Furniss of Townsend and Townsend and Crew was lead counsel for Hynix, and Gregory Stone of Munger Tolles was lead for Rambus; the award was subsequently reduced to $130 million by the judge); z4 Technologies, Inc.'s $133 million victory in its battle against Microsoft Corp. and Autodesk, Inc. (Ernie Brooks of Brooks Kushman represented z4, and John Gartman of Fish rdson represented Microsoft and Autodesk); and Tivo Inc.'s $74 million award in... (Law.com)
Intellectual Property Verdicts Exceed $1.3 Billion in 2006 Mar 3, 2007
Similarly, annual sales of tens of millions of dollars in the dynamic random access memory (DRAM) computer memory chip market was a factor in Rambus Inc.'s $306 ... Hynix Semiconductor Inc. v. Rambus Inc., No. 00-20905 (N.D. Calif. (Law.com)
Stocks to Watch Feb 8, 2007
Rambus Inc. () shares rose 2. 5 percent in after-hours trading. (Fox News)
FTC Sets Maximum Royalties on Rambus Feb 6, 2007
SAN FRANCISCO Feb 5, 2007 (AP) The Federal Trade Commission finalized its ruling that Rambus Inc. violated antitrust laws, imposing limits on the royalties the memory chip designer can charge. Wall Street was bracing for a potentially harsher order than the one that the FTC released Monday, and Rambus stock surged more than 24 percent. (ABC News -- Wire)
FTC limits Rambus royalties Feb 6, 2007
The Federal Trade Commission finalized its ruling that Rambus Inc. violated antitrust laws, imposing limits on the royalties the memory chip designer can charge. Wall Street was bracing for a potentially harsher order, and Rambus stock surged more than 24 percent. (San Diego Union-Tribune -- Business)
FTC caps Rambus memory royalties, sets standards rules Feb 6, 2007
5) set maximum royalty rates for some Rambus Inc. memory technologies and ordered the IP vendor to establish internal procedures to ensure full disclosure of its patents and patent applications to standards groups. The royalty caps apply to SDRAM and DDR SDRAM licenses. (EETimes)
Rambus to detail ultra low power I/O technology Jan 30, 2007
Rambus Inc. is expected to plow new ground toward that goal with a paper detailing a technique to deliver I/O at power rates as little as 2mW/Gbit/s. The technology will be revealed in a paper at (ISSCC) in February. (EETimes)
PEOPLE IN BUSINESS Jan 29, 2007
Rambus Inc., a Los Altos technology licensing company specializing in high-speed chip interfaces, named Martin Scott SVP of engineering. He succeeds Samir Patel who left. (San Francisco Chronicle -- Business)
Stocks to Watch, Jan. 25: Microsoft, eBay and Netflix Jan 25, 2007
Rambus Inc. () reported fiscal fourth-quarter revenue of $51. 7 million, up 24 percent from the same period a year ago. (Fox News -- Views)
Broadcom takes massive $2.24 billion in backdating charges Jan 25, 2007
So far, stock options probes, carried out either by companies themselves or by the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission, have affected around 190 companies, including Apple Inc., and led to the firing or resignation of top executives at some companies, including memory chip developer Rambus Inc. and security software vendor McAfee Inc. Other companies have faced shareholder lawsuits over the issue. Manage Software Licenses, plan for XP/Vista upgrades, Security Audits. (ITworld -- News)
Fewer securities fraud lawsuits filed last year Jan 9, 2007
Suits filed in 2006 targeted companies including General Motors Corp., Comverse Technology Inc., Rambus Inc., Apple Computer Inc., Dell Inc. and Pfizer Inc., according to Stanford Law School. The decrease comes in a year when at least 193 companies announced internal investigations or government probes of their policies for granting stock options to executives. (Albany Times Union)
AFX NEWS BRIEFING: TMT highlights to 15:40 GMT Jan 6, 2007
Rambus Inc. said late Thursday it terminated about 2 ... Rambus Inc. said late Thursday it terminated about 2. (Forbes -- Technology)
Qimonda licenses XDR from Rambus Jan 4, 2007
LONDON European DRAM manufacturer Qimonda AG has signed a license to make use of the XDR memory interface, according to Rambus Inc. Rambus (Los Gatos, Calif. said Qimonda (Munich, Germany) would use XDR for memories implemented in 75-nanometer manufacturing process aimed at game consoles, digital televisions, set-top boxes and PC graphics. (EETimes)
Juries nearly tripled patent awards in 2006 Jan 4, 2007
Bloomberg News Originally published January 4, 2007 WASHINGTON // Juries in the U.S. awarded $1 billion in patent damages last year, almost triple the 2005 amount, as technology companies including Rambus Inc. and TiVo Inc. stepped up their use of the courts to fend off competition. The number of patent verdicts ranking in the top 50 jury awards rose to 10 from three in 2005, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. (Sunspot.net -- Business)
