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UNITED STATES

SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION

Washington, D.C. 20549

 

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FORM 8-K

 

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CURRENT REPORT

 

Pursuant to Section 13 or 15(d) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934

 

Date of Report (Date of earliest event reported) June 6, 2005

 

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Rambus Inc.

(Exact name of registrant as specified in its charter)

 

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Delaware		000-22339		94-3112828
(State or other jurisdiction of incorporation)		(Commission File Number)		(IRS Employer Identification No.)

 

4440 El Camino Real, Los Altos, California		94022
(Address of principal executive offices)		(Zip Code)

 

Registrant’s telephone number, including area code (650) 947-5000

 

N/A

(Former name or former address, if changed since last report)

 

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Check the appropriate box below if the Form 8-K filing is intended to simultaneously satisfy the filing obligation of the registrant under any of the following provisions (see General Instruction A.2 below):

 

¨	Written communications pursuant to Rule 425 under the Securities Act (17 CFR 230.425)

 

¨	Soliciting material pursuant to Rule 14a-12 under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14a-12)

 

¨	Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 14d-2(b) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.14d-2(b))

 

¨	Pre-commencement communications pursuant to Rule 13e-4(c) under the Exchange Act (17 CFR 240.13e-4(c))

 

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Section 1 – Registrant’s Business and Operations

 

Section 8 – Other Information.

 

Item 8.01 Other Events

 

On June 6, 2005, Rambus Inc. (the “Registrant”) issued a press release announcing that it had:

 

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added Samsung Electronics (“Samsung”) as a defendant in its pending patent infringement suit in the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California regarding the alleged infringement of its patented inventions by Samsung’s DDR2 memory devices and GDDR2 and GDDR3 graphics memory devices; and

 

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filed a separate suit naming Samsung as a defendant in claims alleging infringement of Registrant’s patents by Samsung SDRAM and DDR DRAM memory types as a well as controllers working with these memory types.

 

A copy of the press release is attached hereto as Exhibit 99.1 and incorporated by reference herein.

 

Section 9 – Financial Statements and Exhibits

 

Item 9.01 Financial Statements and Exhibits

 

(c)

Exhibits

 

99.1    Press Release dated June 6, 2005.

 

 

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Signature

 

Pursuant to the requirements of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934, as amended, the Registrant has duly caused this report to be signed on its behalf by the undersigned hereunto duly authorized.

 

Date: June 9, 2005				Rambus Inc.
				/s/ Robert K. Eulau
				Robert K. Eulau, Senior Vice President, Finance and Chief Financial Officer

 

 

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Exhibit Index

 

Exhibit Number		Exhibit Title
99.1		Press release dated June 6, 2005.