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schema_version: "secwatch.filing_event.v1"
accession: "0001193125-22-273343"
form_type: "8-K"
ticker: "RMBS"
cik: "0000917273"
company_name: "RAMBUS INC"
filed_at: "2022-10-31T23:59:59+00:00"
generated_at: "2026-06-22T22:13:02.679935+00:00"
event_type: "other_material"
sentiment: "positive"
materiality_score: 0.7
calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
confidence: "high"
source: SEC EDGAR
---

# Rambus extends Samsung patent license deal 10 years to 2033; quarterly payments capped at $15M

## Summary
- Second Amendment effective Oct 1, 2023 extends SPLA term to Sep 30, 2033.
- Variable quarterly payments based on revenue with a $15M quarterly cap starting Q4 2023.
- Existing perpetual paid-up product license maintained; right-of-first-refusal procedures clarified.
- Change-of-control provisions allow negotiation or termination under specific conditions.
- Press release states terms substantially maintain existing financial arrangement.

## SEC filing metadata
- accession: 0001193125-22-273343
- form_type: 8-K
- ticker: RMBS
- cik: 0000917273
- company_name: RAMBUS INC
- filed_at: 2022-10-31T23:59:59+00:00
- event_type: other_material
- sentiment: positive
- materiality_score: 0.7
- calibrated_materiality_score: 0.7
- confidence: high
- sec_items: 1.01, 9.01
- EDGAR index: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/917273/000119312522273343/0001193125-22-273343-index.htm
- EDGAR primary document: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/917273/000119312522273343/d408498d8k.htm

## Machine-readable alternates
- HTML: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-273343
- JSON: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-273343.json
- Plain text: https://secwatch.observer/filing/0001193125-22-273343.txt

## Key facts
- Material Agreements
  RAMBUS INC amended Second Amendment with Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd. (effective 2023-10-01).
  - Action: amendment
  - Agreement: license
  - Counterparty: Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd.
  - Effective: 2023-10-01
  source text: On October 27, 2022, Rambus Inc. (“Rambus”) and Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., a Korean corporation (“Samsung”) entered into a second amendment (the “Second Amendment”) to that certain Semiconductor Patent License Agreement, dated January 19, 2010
  evidence_url: https://www.sec.gov/Archives/edgar/data/917273/000119312522273343/0001193125-22-273343-index.htm

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