With how cheap it is to buy synchronous ram these days, rambus can't be charging giagantic licencing fees or anything. I commend them for being slimey weasels that were in the loop. At least they were smart enough to abandon thier own architecture when they knew it was destine for faliure. Im not knocking on rdram, just the fact that a slight memory bandwidth improvement would end up costing 30% more on a system purchase when both technologies were in infancy.