Back in 2000, Rambus announced record earnings which were overshadowed by harsh words from Craig Barrett, Intel president and chief executive officer. Barrett also took a swipe at Rambus’ campaign to extract royalties from DRAM makers for SDRAM and DDR memory technology that competes with Rambus’ own direct DRAM. Analysts said Barrett’s words had a ring of finality to them. Others interpreted Barrett’s comments to mean that Intel had failed rather thanRambus. Despite the disparaging comments, Intel is locked in to using Rambus technology, at least until 2003, said Bert McComas, founder and principal analyst at InQuest.