Rambus

Rambus is one of the world's premier technology licensing companies specializing in the invention and design of high-speed chip interfaces. Since its founding in 1990, the company's patented innovations, breakthrough technologies and renowned integration expertise have helped industry-leading chip and system companies bring superior products to market. Rambus' technology and products solve customers' most complex chip and system-level interface challenges enabling unprecedented performance in computing, communications and consumer electronics applications. Rambus licenses both its world-class patent portfolio as well as its family of leadership and industry-standard interface products. Headquartered in Los Altos, California, Rambus has regional offices in North Carolina, India, Germany, Japan and Taiwan.
For over fifteen years, Rambus has been guided by a fundamental commitment to advanced research and development. Rambus engineers invented technology that is foundational to nearly all modern digital electronic devices. Rambus' founders Dr. Mark Horowitz and Dr. Mike Farmwald developed the revolutionary technology behind the first RDRAM® memory devices. Today, Rambus' patent portfolio covers fundamental inventions made in the area of high-speed signaling including those underlying all modern DRAM memory products. Thanks to this history of innovation, Rambus has built a strong and growing portfolio of over 900 issued and pending patents worldwide. Rambus' patent license customers include such industry leaders as AMD, Elpida Memory, Fujitsu, Infineon Technologies, NEC Electronics and Renesas Technology.
Rambus' products deliver the speed and performance required by today and tomorrow's most demanding applications. Rambus' leadership products include the XDR™ DRAM architecture, the world's fastest production memory, and the FlexIO™ interface, the world's fastest processor bus. Incorporating Rambus' micro-threading innovation, XDR™2 DRAM delivers the world's highest performance for graphics intensive applications such as gaming and digital video. As the inventor of so many fundamental technologies for high speed interfaces, Rambus is uniquely positioned to deliver best-in-class performance across industry-standard products including DDR, GDDR and PCI Express® interfaces. With its family of both leadership and industry-standard chip interface products, Rambus helps customers deliver unprecedented levels of performance while speeding time to market.
The greatest demonstration of the value of Rambus' technology is our customers' products that enrich the lives of millions of people everyday. From Sony Computer Entertainment's best selling PlayStation®2, to the dazzling visual performance of Texas Instrument's DLP™ high-definition digital TVs to the Juniper T-series™ routers that help form the backbone of the Internet, you'll find Rambus technology in best-of-class products in computing, communications and consumer electronics. The latest demonstration is Rambus' role in the realization of the Cell processor co-developed by Sony, Toshiba and IBM. Rambus' XDR memory interface and FlexIO processor bus provide the unprecedented bandwidth needed to unleash the tremendous computing potential of the Cell. With Rambus technology, Cell will power the breakthrough performance of Sony's PlayStation®3 – a supercomputer for digital entertainment. Dramatically advancing the performance of our customers' products is the mission at Rambus, your license to speed