Rambus chief executive Geoff Tate said that the company has no plans to reduce the fee it charges memory makers for licensing its memory design. Supporters say the existence of the forum is a step in the right direction. Jay Bell, a senior fellow at Dell Computer, for instance, said that about 35 to 40 percent of the company's desktops in the fourth quarter will use Rambus memory. That's down slightly from earlier projections of a 50 percent saturation, but robust nonetheless. Most Rambus PCs, Bell added, will come out in the consumer Dimension line or in the workstation Precision line. A June delay of Intel chips supporting Rambus means that corporate buyers will not be able to effectively validate the technology for their systems for 1999. A price premium for Rambus systems will exist, Bell added, but will go down rapidly. Still, cost issues abound.