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Press ReleaseElpida and Rambus Modify and Extend SDRAM and DDR Patent Licensing AgreementNew agreement includes DDR2 and FB-DIMM innovations Los Altos, California, United States - 06/07/2004 Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq:RMBS), a leading developer of chip interface products and services today announced an extension of its SDRAM and DDR DRAM patent licensing agreement with Elpida Memory, Inc. to include Rambus innovations for DDR2 DRAM, fully-buffered modules (FB-DIMMs), GDDR1, GDDR2, GDDR3, RLDRAM1, RLDRAM2 and FCRAM memory products. The new agreement extends Elpida's license term to March 2008. The license scope has been expanded to permit Elpida to sell SDRAM, DDR DRAM, DDR2 DRAM, associated FB-DIMMs and specialty DRAM products in exchange for interim fixed quarterly payments to Rambus. These interim fixed quarterly payments will only apply until certain trigger events occur. The interim shift from per unit to fixed payments is not expected to have a material impact on Rambus's 2004 revenues. "This represents our first SDRAM and DDR DRAM license extending past 2005 as well as our first DRAM license covering DDR2," said Geoff Tate, chief executive officer at Rambus. "This agreement gives us predictability of royalty income from Elpida for the immediate future while giving Elpida a path to potential cost savings in the longer term. We view this agreement as mutually beneficial and are pleased to lengthen and expand our relationship with our long-time customer Elpida." Since its founding in 1990, Rambus has focused on advancing system performance through innovations in various applications, including logic and memory interfaces, controller architecture, and system design. The result is a broad portfolio of innovations and patents that enables semiconductor manufacturers and system designers to achieve ever-increasing levels of functionality and performance, which allows them to improve performance, lower system costs, mitigate risk with silicon-proven designs, and reduce time to market. Rambus is a registered trademark of Rambus Inc. Other trademarks that may be mentioned in this release are the intellectual property of their respective owners. This release contains forward-looking statements under the Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, such as the statement related to the possible effect that the shift from per unit royalty payments to fixed payments could have on Rambus's 2004 revenues and as to the beneficial nature of the extended agreement. Such forward-looking statements are based on current expectations, management's beliefs, and certain assumptions made by the Company's management. Actual results may differ materially. Among the reasons that could cause actual results to differ materially are: Elpida's sales, strength of the DRAM market, and other factors that are described more fully in our SEC filings including our 10-K and 10-Qs.
關於Rambus Inc.Rambus 是全球首屈一指的專長於高速晶片介面發明與設計的技術授權企業。公司始建於1990 年，其專利的創新技術、突破性技術以及著名的集成專家經驗幫助業內領先的晶片與系統企業向市場上推出卓越產品。Rambus 的技術與產品能夠解決客戶最複雜的晶片與系統級介面難題，從而幫助計算、通信與消費電子設備實現前所未有的性能。Rambus 為其世界級的專利組合以及領先的行業標準介面系列產品發放使用授權。Rambus 總部位於加利福尼亞州Los Altos，在北卡羅來納州、印度、德國、日本和臺灣等地設有地區性辦事處。瞭解更多資訊，請訪問網站 www.rambus.com.tw 。
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