FROM 10 Bec DATE TIME SUBJECT ‘ATTACHMENT Richard Crisp 09/11/1997 15:49:50 more stuff on taipe’jedec meeting More stutf from the Carroll contact: “The jedec folks decided to drop the notion of 250MHz and 200MH2 as they ‘don’t think it wil work. don't know if thal means 100 and 125MHz clocks (of 200MH2/250MHz clocks. ‘Another thing that came up is that they really want o change the name of DDR to something else. | think someone must have figured out thet DDR is the acronym of the now defunct Deutschland Democratic Republic (ake East Germany). Nota great name, can especially imagine Siemens having & problem with i! Finally Mark noted that ll troughout the DDR alscussions, comments were ‘being made like “es good as Rambus” or “almost a8 good 8s Rambus”. His take {is that is not a very bright marketing ploy to talk about something that ‘might be real in a year or more being #8 good es something already around. He was thinking I would be better for them ¥ their product was {echnically better, but clearly itis not, and everyone there wall readily ‘dm. He also told me that toward the end of the day, the excitement level picked Lup when the topic changed to where they were going to have dinner that His take was the locals got fed up after the frst day, and let and did ‘not come back. The focal companies he talked to were not very favorably impressed with what they saw, they were especially turned off to learn that they had to PAY to join, 25 well as travel overseas to atiend meetings. One ‘guy said there is no way his boss would pay for that either the dollars or the time. In short, Mark thought the process was somewhat impressive, seeing 60-80 ‘engineers in one place at the same time from competing companies and being civ, but on the other hand he also can see why JEDEC is not an efficient ‘organization. We talked a bit about the mechanics of voting, resolving “NO” voles, and the process of the motion being taken to Counc for final standardization. Since the DDR was not finalized at this meeting, it most Tkely wil be early next year atthe eartiest before Council gets the proposal. That means maybe by March or perhaps by June there will be & standard. | believe it was a good thing that we talked before he wrote his story. rac Richard Crisp Rambus nc. ymbus.com 2465 Latham St Mountain View, Ca 94040 (650 903 3832 direct (650 965 1528 fax (new telephone area code™™) R 213689 RH 366246 ‘OUTSIDE COUNSEL ONLY ¢x0953-001 |