Craig Hampel has spent the past two years trying to design the next leap in memory chip technology, one that will allow computers to display more detailed graphics even faster.

Now comes the hard part: persuading the world’s memory chip manufacturers to pay for it.

Hampel is the senior engineer at Rambus, a Silicon Valley technology company that has spent much of the past decade suing many of the biggest names in the computer memory business by its

technology patents, and getting sued in turn. As a aftermath, Rambus has been struggling to thrive in a $30 billion industry where it finds itself with few friends, even though it claims that its designs are used all through the industry.

Memory chip technology designed by Rambus is in the Sony PlayStation and the Nintendo 64 game machines, and, thanks to a 1992 agreement with Intel, a huge majority of personal computers. The […]

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