Press Release

Rambus Achieves 500th Patent Milestone

Recent patent awards include innovative FlexPhase™ circuit technology

Los Altos, California, United States  - 06/01/2006  

Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq:RMBS), one of the world's premier technology licensing companies specializing in high-speed chip interfaces, today announced that it has been granted its 500th patent from the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, and foreign patent offices. Rambus' growing patent portfolio includes fundamental inventions in the area of memory design, high-speed interfaces, package layout, and system design. One such invention recently awarded United States Patent 6,675,272 is used in Rambus' FlexPhase™ circuit technology. FlexPhase eliminates trace-length matching and corrects for timing mismatches in complex circuit designs, and was first demonstrated in Rambus' XDR™ memory architecture.

"Rambus has advanced the state-of-the-art in memory architectures and high-speed signaling for the past 16 years, achieving an industry-leading portfolio of patented inventions," said Kent Richardson, vice president of Intellectual Property at Rambus. "Reaching the milestone of our 500th patent is a testament to the passion for innovation of Rambus scientists and engineers, and to the ongoing commitment of the company to fundamental research and development."

Rambus' portfolio of patented inventions in the area of high-speed signaling includes those underlying all modern DRAM memory products and their associated memory controllers. Rambus innovations have been incorporated into virtually all digital electronics products including personal computers, video game consoles, digital TVs and digital set-top boxes. As signaling speeds continue to rise, Rambus innovations will become increasingly critical to delivering breakthrough levels of performance.

Rambus now has 500 issued and over 480 pending patents. For more information on Rambus’s patent portfolio, visit www.rambus.com/products/innovationslicensing/.

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 。

 

Contacts

Linda Ashmore
Rambus Public Relations
(650) 947-5411
lashmore@rambus.com