Comments on: Rambus, Antitrust & the Common Law https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/01/rambus-antitrust-the-common-law/ Chronicling the high cost of our legal system Tue, 02 Jan 2007 04:25:04 +0000 hourly 1 By: LAN3 https://www.overlawyered.com/2007/01/rambus-antitrust-the-common-law/comment-page-1/#comment-13591 Tue, 02 Jan 2007 04:25:04 +0000 http://overlawyered.com/wpblog/index.php/2007/01/rambus-antitrust-the-common-law/#comment-13591 Meanwhile, the market handled this one just fine: Rambus’s memory format, RDRAM, was never embraced by the market because it was expensive, had weird requirements (their memory sticks had to run in pairs, though a single stick could be run with a memory-less filler stick made to satisfy the pairing requirement). Rambus’s temporary marriage with Intel motherboard chipsets caused business to go to VIA, Intel’s major competitor. In short, the RDRAM from Rambus failed to compete with, much less displace the new DDRAM standard which is somewhere around its 3rd or 4th generation of tech these days.

Amazing that someone sees evidence of price-fixing among RDRAM’s competitors– what did they do, collude to set their price much lower than their competitor’s? Heaven forbid!

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