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Toshiba and Rambus Sign Patent License Agreement

Agreement covers SDRAM and DDR SDRAM memory controllers

Los Altos, California, United States  - 07/05/2006   Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq:RMBS), one of the world's premier technology licensing companies specializing in high-speed chip interfaces, announced today it has signed a new patent license agreement with Toshiba Corporation. This agreement grants Toshiba a license to Rambus patents for SDRAM and DDR SDRAM memory controllers.

"Toshiba was our first patent licensee and we are pleased to continue this long and valuable relationship with a trusted partner," said Sharon Holt, senior vice president of Sales, Licensing and Marketing at Rambus. “Our focus of licensing industry-leading companies with both our products and patents continues to help push the boundaries of what our collective engineering teams can accomplish. We look forward to many years of development with Toshiba.”

Toshiba currently holds technology licenses for the use of Rambus’ XDR™ memory solution and its DDR2 interface cells as well as its FlexIO™ processor bus interface. Additionally, Toshiba has licensed various Rambus serial link interface designs, including those for Advanced Backplane, Fibre Channel, and PCI Express applications.

Since its founding in 1990, Rambus has focused on advancing electronic system performance through innovations in logic and memory interfaces, controller architectures, and system design. Such innovations include the application of micro-threading to a DRAM core, the elimination of trace length matching with FlexPhase™ circuit technology, and industry-recognized dynamic point-to-point memory-enhancing technology. These and other innovations result in a broad portfolio of innovations and patents that enables semiconductor manufacturers and system designers to achieve ever-increasing levels of functionality and performance, to lower system costs, to mitigate risk with silicon-proven designs, and to reduce time to market. For more information on Rambus’ patent portfolio, please visit www.rambus.com/products/innovationslicensing/.

关于Rambus Inc.

Rambus 是全球首屈一指的专长于高速芯片接口发明与设计的技术授权企业。公司始建于1990 年,其专利的创新技术、突破性技术以及著名的集成专家经验帮助业内领先的芯片与系统企业向市场上推出卓越产品。Rambus 的技术与产品能够解决客户最复杂的芯片与系统级接口难题,从而帮助计算、通信与消费电子设备实现前所未有的性能。Rambus 为其世界级的专利组合以及领先的行业标准接口系列产品发放使用授权。Rambus 总部位于加利福尼亚州Los Altos,在北卡罗来纳州、印度、德国、日本和台湾等地设有地区性办事处。了解更多信息,请访问网站 www.rambus.com.cn 。

 

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