Blog – Rambus

GLOBALFOUNDRIES highlights HBM2 PHY collaboration with Rambus

Memory PHYs | August 22nd, 2017

2Tbps multi-lane HBM2 PHY Earlier this month, GLOBALFOUNDRIES demonstrated silicon functionality of a 2.5D packaging solution for its high-performance 14nm FinFET FX-14 integrated design system for application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). The 2.5D ASIC solution includes [...]

Wireless VR to strain data networks

SerDes PHYs | August 22nd, 2017

Juniper Research analysts forecast that wireless VR headsets (smartphone-based and standalone) data consumption will increase by over 650% over the next 4 years, from nearly 2,800PB (Petabytes) in 2017 to over 21,000PB in 2021. Moreover, [...]

SiFive and Rambus to provide IP for the ‘DesignShare’ economy

CryptoManager | August 21st, 2017

SiFive has announced a collaborative partnership with Rambus. More specifically, the latter company’s security technology will be made available for use with SiFive’s Freedom platforms. This includes a hardware root-of-trust, cryptographic cores, key provisioning capabilities [...]

How NVDIMM-N enables higher system performance

Server DIMM Chipsets | August 17th, 2017

Sarvagya Kochak, a senior product marketing manager at Rambus, recently penned an article for Semiconductor Engineering that explores the concept of enabling higher system performance with NVDIMM-N. According to Kochak, the shift from the traditional [...]

Accelerating mobile payment adoption with value-added services

Mobile Payments | August 16th, 2017

André Stoorvogel, a product marketing director at Rambus, has written an article for Finextra about accelerating mobile payment adoption with value-added services. Value-added services “As the high-profile success of mobile applications such as Starbucks attests, [...]

Minding the mobile self-checkout loss prevention gap

Mobile Payments | August 15th, 2017

Earlier this month, Forrester principal analyst Brendan Miller observed that the success of mobile self-checkout is contingent upon bridging the loss prevention gap. As Miller notes, consumer demands and expectations have created a new alternative [...]

5G edge computing in a post-GIGO world

Smart Data Acceleration | August 15th, 2017

There are many who would dispute the notion that we are living in a post-GIGO (Garbage In, Garbage Out) world. Nevertheless, it is undeniable that the ubiquitous Internet of Things (IoT) has created a digital [...]

Can the IoT be immunized?

CryptoManager | August 14th, 2017

The Financial Times recently published an article that explores the dangers of an unsecured IoT ecosystem. As the article notes, human pandemics such as the Spanish Flu illustrate how poor cyber-health could potentially lead to a [...]

Transforming Europe’s digital economy with PSD2 and GDPR

Mobile Payments | August 10th, 2017

PSD2 and GDPR Marta Ienco, the Head of Governments and Regulatory Affairs for the Identity program of the GSMA, recently penned an article for ItPortalPro about PSD2 and GDPR (General Data Protection Regulation). As Ienco [...]

GLOBALFOUNDRIES demonstrates 2.5D high-bandwidth memory (HBM) solution

Memory PHYs | August 9th, 2017

GLOBALFOUNDRIES has demonstrated silicon functionality of a 2.5D packaging solution for its high-performance 14nm FinFET FX-14™ integrated design system for application-specific integrated circuits (ASICs). According to Kevin O’Buckley, VP of ASIC product development at GF, [...]

Blockchain deployments shift into high gear

Mobile Payments | August 8th, 2017

A new study published by Juniper Research confirms that nearly 6 in 10 (57%) large corporations are either actively considering, or are in the process of, deploying blockchain technology. Moreover, amongst companies that have reached [...]

Worldwide semiconductor capital spending to increase over 10% in 2017

General | August 8th, 2017

Gartner analysts say worldwide semiconductor capital spending will hit $77.7 billion in 2017, posting an impressive 10.2% increase. According to Takashi Ogawa, research vice president at Gartner, growth rate is up from the previous quarter's [...]

U.S. Senate legislation seeks to bolster federal IoT security

CryptoManager | August 7th, 2017

U.S. Sens. Mark R. Warner (D-VA) and Cory Gardner (R-CO), co-chairs of the Senate Cybersecurity Caucus, along with Sens. Ron Wyden (D-OR) and Steve Daines (R-MT), have introduced bipartisan legislation to bolster the security of [...]

Customer loyalty accelerates mobile wallet adoption

Mobile Payments | August 3rd, 2017

Earlier this year, BusinessInsider’s Ayoub Aouad observed that retailers like Starbucks (mobile payments now account for 30% of the coffee chain’s transactions) and Dunkin' Donuts were “winning over” consumers with their mobile wallets. Moreover, says [...]

Memory and the IoT

Memory PHYs | August 2nd, 2017

Semiconductor Engineering’s Ed Sperling and Jeff Dorsch recently wrote an article about the challenges of chip design in the age of the IoT. As Sperling notes, this includes sensors, various types of processors, a growing [...]

British police official eyes security ratings for IoT-connected devices

CryptoManager | August 1st, 2017

A British police official has suggested that televisions, fridges and other internet-connected home appliances should carry a cyber security score alongside energy efficiency ratings. “Whenever you go into a store now you see fridges and [...]

HBM2 continues to ramp

Memory PHYs | August 1st, 2017

Samsung ramps volume production of 8GB HBM2 Earlier this month, Samsung confirmed an increase in production volume of its 8-gigabyte (GB) High Bandwidth Memory-2 (HBM2) to meet growing market needs across a wide range of [...]

The open APIs of PSD2 and beyond

Mobile Payments | July 31st, 2017

Unlocking the true value of APIs Herber de Ruijter, EVP Head of Digital for Transaction Banking at iGTB, recently penned an article for FX-MM about unlocking the hidden value of client data in open APIs. [...]

Millennials want to scan and go

Mobile Payments | July 27th, 2017

A new survey conducted by Acosta (cited by eMarketer) finds that more than 8 in 10 millennials are interested in scanning products in-store and then paying via a mobile app. Nevertheless, very few retailers plan [...]

Softbank Technology announces strategic IoT security partnership with Rambus

CryptoManager | July 27th, 2017

Softbank Technology, along with two of its subsidiaries, Cybertrust Japan and Miracle Linux Corporation, have announced a strategic partnership with Rambus. The partnership will see the three companies collaborate to bolster IoT security and device [...]

Devil’s Ivy haunts vulnerable IoT devices

CryptoManager | July 26th, 2017

Security researchers at Senrio have discovered a stack buffer overflow vulnerability (CVE-2017-9765) in the M3004 Axis Communications security camera. Dubbed “Devil’s Ivy,” the vulnerability, identified in an open source third-party code library, results in remote [...]

Let’s take a closer look at Rambus’ Data Warehouse

Smart Ticketing | July 25th, 2017

Rambus Data Warehouse The Rambus Data Warehouse allows operators to unlock the full value of data generated by smart transport schemes. Essentially, information is collected in a single, central database where trends in passenger travel, [...]

FBI expresses concern over Internet-connected toys

CryptoManager | July 24th, 2017

Privacy and safety risks The Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) has issued a public service announcement that encourages consumers to carefully consider cyber security before introducing smart, interactive, internet-connected toys into their homes. “Smart toys [...]

Memory buffer chips: The Amdahl-Moore’s Law connection

Server DIMM Chipsets | July 20th, 2017

John Eble, a senior director of technical product marketing at Rambus, recently penned an article for Semiconductor Engineering about memory buffer chips. As Eble notes, Moore’s Law, which observes that available transistors in an integrated [...]

What’s inside your mobile wallet?

Mobile Payments | July 19th, 2017

Rambus Payments CTO Chakib Bouda recently sat down with Pymnts.com to discuss the future of mobile wallets. According to Bouda, brick-and-mortar retailers are now seriously rethinking their approach to remaining competitive in the digital age [...]

Part 2: DRAM goes cryogenic

Cryogenic Memory | July 18th, 2017

In part one of this series, Rambus Chief Scientist Craig Hampel told Semiconductor Engineering’s Ed Sperling that cryogenic DRAM (below minus−180 °C or 93.15 kelvin) offers numerous power and performance advantages. These include increased transistor [...]

Report: Global tokenization market to hit $2.25 billion by 2022

Mobile Payments | July 18th, 2017

A new report published by Research and Markets predicts the global tokenization market will hit $2.25 billion by 2020 with a Compound Annual Growth Rate (CAGR) of 22.4%. “The constant pressure of managing sensitive data [...]

Let’s talk about PSD2 and mobile payments

Mobile Payments | July 17th, 2017

The Payments Services Directive (PSD) was adopted in 2007, creating a single market for payments in the European Union and providing the legal foundation for a Single Euro Payments Area (SEPA). In 2015, the European [...]

Contactless in London: One billion journeys and counting

Smart Ticketing | July 13th, 2017

Contactless in London UK transport officials confirm that London's transport network has seen more than one billion pay-as-you-go journeys made by contactless payment cards, with the new payment option “substantially changing” the way customers pay for [...]

Encouraging IoT security adoption

CryptoManager | July 12th, 2017

Rambus Sr. Director of Security Products Asaf Ashkenazi recently wrote an article for Semiconductor Engineering about encouraging IoT security adoption. As Ashkenazi notes, everyone acknowledges that the clear majority of IoT devices are vulnerable and [...]

How to achieve a perfect buying experience – views from around the industry

Mobile Payments | July 10th, 2017

Earlier this year, Rambus welcomed leading payments experts from around the world to our Rotterdam offices for the Mobey Forum member meeting. During the networking sessions, we spoke to a range of industry experts to [...]

Mobile payments on the Beijing Metro

Smart Ticketing | July 10th, 2017

Masha Borak of TechNode reports that the Beijing Metro has begun promoting the use of mobile payments on the Fangshan Line which runs through the south of the city. As Borak notes, Beijing has beaten [...]

Part 1: DRAM goes cryogenic

Cryogenic Memory | July 10th, 2017

Rambus Chief Scientist Craig Hampel recently spoke with Ed Sperling of Semiconductor Engineering about the power benefits and performance advantages of running DRAM at extremely low cryogenic temperatures (below minus−180 °C or 93.15 kelvin). “When [...]

HCE and the evolution of smart travel ticketing

Smart Ticketing | July 6th, 2017

Earlier this month, Director of Nevis Technologies David Braddock penned an article about the evolution of smart travel ticketing for EuroTransport. As Braddock notes, smart card-based ticketing has successfully provided a convenient way to travel [...]

What does the perfect buying experience look like?

Mobile Payments | July 5th, 2017

Rambus recently interviewed a number of prominent industry experts at the Mobey Forum about the perfect buying experience. As Rambus CMO Jerome Nadel points out, the digitization of credit cards on mobile devices has enabled [...]

Digital retail wallet: 5 Reasons it makes sense

Mobile Payments | June 29th, 2017

The retail landscape is evolving rapidly as emerging technologies and trends are changing expectations of the in-store experience. As retailers look to find their place in this brave new world, many are now seeing payments [...]

Becoming a design-led CMO

General | June 28th, 2017

Drew Neisser of AdAge recently spoke with Rambus CMO Jerome Nadel about the importance of adopting a design-led approach to marketing. As Neisser explains, design-led thinking is essentially the unification of product development and marketing. [...]

We need to talk about IoT security

CryptoManager | June 27th, 2017

Earlier this month, Sophos global head of security research James Lyne told ITProPortal that now is the time for tough, immediate action on dangerously unsafe IoT products. "We're absolutely in a world of release features, [...]

Are in-flight mobile payments ready for takeoff?

Mobile Payments | June 26th, 2017

Kristian Gjerding of MobilePaymentsToday recently penned an article about the future of in-flight mobile payments. More specifically, Gjerding cites a new CellPoint Mobile-commissioned survey that found “raised-on-mobile travelers” increasingly expect in-flight mobile payment capabilities to [...]

Ransomware could target connected vehicles

CryptoManager | June 22nd, 2017

Jeff Plungis of Consumer Reports observes that the recent “WannaCry” ransomware attack highlights the digital vulnerabilities in our daily lives, including connected vehicles which increasingly rely on computer chips and more than 100 million lines [...]

Survey: Mobile wallet payments are poised for growth

Mobile Payments | June 21st, 2017

A new survey conducted by First Annapolis confirms that mobile wallets have proliferated over the past year, with issuers introducing proprietary solutions to compete with Apple, Samsung and Android Pay. Interestingly, two thirds of respondents [...]

10/7nm: Transient power issues and side-channel attacks

DPA Countermeasures | June 20th, 2017

Semiconductor Engineering’s Ann Steffora Mutschler has written an in-depth article that explores the issue of transient power at 10/7nm. According to Mutschler, transient power adds yet another level of complexity for design teams already wrestling [...]

Rambus launches JEDEC-standard DDR4 NVRCD

Server DIMM Chipsets | June 19th, 2017

Rambus has launched a JEDEC-standard DDR4 registering clock driver for non-volatile DIMM (NVRCD). According to Bill Fuller, a senior director of field application engineering at Rambus, non-volatile dual in-line memory module (NVDIMM) technologies enable the [...]

U.S. Government Accountability Office highlights unsecured IoT risks

CryptoManager | June 15th, 2017

The United States Government Accountability Office (GAO) has published a detailed report that explores the rapidly evolving Internet of Things (IoT). As the report warns, the growing ubiquity and pervasive connectivity of IoT devices and [...]

Creating a compelling shopping experience with mobile payments

Mobile Payments | June 14th, 2017

Simon Hill of Digital Trends recently observed that while the concept of ditching physical wallets and having all digital cards on our phones is undeniably attractive, it simply isn’t enough. “Even when mobile payment systems [...]

Semiconductor industry eyes SoC/ASIC disaggregation

SerDes PHYs | June 13th, 2017

Mohit Gupta, a senior director of product marketing for Rambus' Memory and Interfaces Division, has penned an article for Semiconductor Engineering about the growing industry interest in SoC/ASIC disaggregation. As Gupta notes, petabytes of data are [...]

Wanted: Seamless mobile payments

Mobile Payments | June 12th, 2017

Trip Chowdhry, managing director with Global Equities Research, tells George Avalos of The Mercury News that the digital wallet business has gotten off to a rough start. “There have been many false starts in this industry,” says [...]

U.S. firms confirm IoT security breaches

CryptoManager | June 8th, 2017

A new survey conducted by Altman Vilandrie & Company confirms that nearly half of U.S. firms using an Internet of Things (IoT) network have been hit by a recent security breach. According to the strategy [...]

Rambus is one of Visa’s new token service providers

Mobile Payments | June 7th, 2017

Rambus has been chosen as a partner to participate in Visa’s token service provider program (TSP). According to Visa, broader access to new standards such as tokenization are set to be in growing demand as [...]

Emiko Higashi appointed to Rambus Board of Directors

General | June 6th, 2017

Rambus has announced the appointment of Ms. Emiko Higashi as a Board director. Ms. Higashi is an industry veteran with broad experience in technology-focused investment banking and finance, along with a comprehensive understanding of business [...]