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Rambus Expands Family of Revolutionary LED-based Light Bulbs

The Commercially Available PAR30 and BR30 Complement the Previously Announced A19 Now Providing an Extended Range of Commercial and Consumer Bulbs

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES – 04/18/2013 – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), the innovative technology solutions company that brings invention to market, today announced it has expanded its LED bulb product portfolio to include both PAR30 and BR30 bulbs. Like the previously introduced Rambus A19 bulb, the two new products are built on the company’s MicroLens® optical technology, provide excellent energy efficiency and broad dimmer compatibility, and are designed to provide highly effective thermal management. The new Rambus PAR30 (65-watt equivalent) and BR30 (75-watt equivalent) LED bulbs are designed to address the energy efficiency, reduced glare and lighting experience needs of consumers, property managers, retailers, lighting designers, and specifiers across a wide range of indoor and outdoor lighting applications.

“The LED market is experiencing record growth as consumer and professional demand for energy-efficient products continues to rise and new innovations improve the performance, cost and overall value of LED-based products,” said Jeffery Parker, president of the Rambus Lighting and Display Technology business. “Rambus is at the forefront of LED bulb innovation with our optical technologies, significantly improving light distribution, performance, and overall product lifetime.”

Both the Rambus PAR30 and BR30 LED bulbs exceed lumen output specified by Energy Star. In addition, the superior micro-electronics improve dimmability and provide a better lighting experience. The full portfolio of Rambus LED bulbs are currently available for commercial orders, with shipments expected to start by the third quarter of this year

The Elite Group will promote and sell the Rambus LED bulb portfolio to retail markets within North America, including the broad range of major retail customers already working with Elite. Elite Group’s L’Image home products division will be demonstrating bulbs built on Rambus’ technology at the upcoming National Hardware Show (Booth # 3111), from May 7 – May 9 in Las Vegas.

For additional information on Rambus’s wide-range of lighting innovations, please visitwww.rambus.com/us/technology/applications/lighting/index.html.

About Rambus Inc.
Rambus is the innovative technology solutions company that brings invention to market. Unleashing the intellectual power of our world-class engineers and scientists in a collaborative and synergistic way, Rambus invents, licenses and develops solutions that challenge and enable our customers to create the future. While best known for creating unsurpassed semiconductor memory architectures, Rambus is also developing world-changing products and services in security, advanced LED lighting and displays, and immersive mobile media.

Rambus Introduces Revolutionary LED Light Bulb

Unique design offers the light of a traditional incandescent with exceptionally lower power and longer life

LAS VEGAS, NEVADA, UNITED STATES – 01/07/2013 – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), the innovative technology solutions company that brings invention to market, today introduced its latest lighting invention turned product – a highly efficient, long-lasting and innovative LED family of light bulbs.

The new family of bulbs offers the high-quality light, simplicity and ease-of-use of traditional incandescent bulbs while delivering the energy efficiency, durability and reliability of the most advanced LED technology. The first offering, an A19, 60 watt equivalent, is designed to provide consumers with the quality and lighting distribution of traditional incandescent bulbs using close to one-quarter the power and lasting up to 25 times longer.

These new bulbs take a fundamentally different design approach than other LED light bulbs on the market. The inventive seed of this lighting solution is Rambus’ MicroLens® optical technology, which in the bulb enables the use of a cylindrical light guide with the ability to produce a consistent, spherical distribution of light. This open structure allows for the innovative use of convection to keep the bulb cool. The result is a family of bulbs with increased energy efficiency, significantly improved lifetime and reduced bill of materials cost by utilizing fewer or lower-powered LEDs. The technology embodied in MicroLens optics has a proven track record in backlighting cell phones, computer screens, televisions and other displays.

The Rambus solution was designed to solve critical consumer lighting issues such as efficiency, reliability, and performance in a cost-effective manner. Building on Rambus’ core strength in electronics, this bulb offers broad compatibility with dimmers, resulting in no humming or buzzing, unlike alternative offerings.

“We are pleased to introduce our revolutionary design for innovative and efficient LED bulbs. Our unique design has all the benefits of the best LED technology available and offers a significant bill of materials cost savings,” said Jeffery Parker, president of the Rambus Lighting and Display Technology division.

The Rambus LED bulbs will be sold through partners and will be available at retailers and professional channels within Q2 2013. Rambus plans to expand its offerings with additional A19 and PAR offerings during 2013.

For additional information, please visit www.rambus.com/bulb

About Rambus Inc.
Rambus is the innovative technology solutions company that brings invention to market. Unleashing the intellectual power of our world-class engineers and scientists in a collaborative and synergistic way, Rambus invents, licenses and develops solutions that challenge and enable our customers to create the future. While best known for creating unsurpassed semiconductor memory architectures, Rambus is also developing world-changing products and services in security, advanced LED lighting and displays, and immersive mobile media. For additional information visit www.rambus.com.

Rambus and The Elite Group to Partner to Sell Revolutionary LED Bulb

Elite Group to sell Rambus LED bulbs into retail and professional channels within North America

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES and MONTREAL, CANADA – 01/07/2013 — Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS), the innovative technology solutions company that brings invention to market, announced today the commencement of a business alliance with the Elite Group, a leading designer and distributor of home goods, lighting, and other consumable products. The Elite Group will promote and sell the Rambus LED bulb portfolio to retail and professional markets within North America, including the broad range of major retail customers already working with Elite.

Elite Group, in its L’Image Home Products division, currently sells a portfolio of bulbs and lighting products to major retailers including Home Depot. “We are committed to consistently providing quality market-relevant products that leverage technology and design, and we expect this relationship with Rambus will provide revolutionary LED bulbs that will be extremely attractive to our key customers,” said Danny Lavy, Elite Group CEO. “The Rambus LED bulb is high-quality, affordable, elegant and highly functional.”

The Rambus LED bulbs take a fundamentally different design approach than other LED light bulbs on the market. The inventive seed of this lighting solution is Rambus’ MicroLens® optical technology, which in the bulb enables the use of a cylindrical light guide with the ability to produce a consistent, spherical distribution of light. This open structure allows for the innovative use of convection to keep the bulb cool. The result is a family of bulbs with increased energy efficiency, significantly improved lifetime and reduced bill of materials cost by utilizing fewer or lower-powered LEDs. The technology embodied in MicroLens optics has a proven track record in backlighting cell phones, computer screens, televisions and other displays.

“We are excited to enter into a potential partnership with Elite Group that will provide a key channel to bring our LED bulbs to the North American market,” said Jeffery Parker, president of the Rambus Lighting and Display Technology business. “We look forward to establishing a strong and productive business relationship with Elite with its broad range of world-class retailers.”

The first Rambus LED bulbs will be available at major retailers and professional channels as soon as Q2 2013. An extended portfolio of A19 and PAR bulbs with a roadmap of technology enhancements that enable increased functionality is under way.

About Rambus Inc.
Rambus is the innovative technology solutions company that brings invention to market. Unleashing the intellectual power of our world-class engineers and scientists in a collaborative and synergistic way, Rambus invents, licenses and develops solutions that challenge and enable our customers to create the future. While best known for creating unsurpassed semiconductor memory architectures, Rambus is also developing world-changing products and services in security, advanced LED lighting and displays, and immersive mobile media.

About Elite
The Elite Group is a team of passionate dedicated individuals, passionate about fashion, passionate bout quality, and passionate about delivering an exceptional product to the market. We aim to satisfy the final consumer while providing strong support to our buyers on an operational level. We believe that the key ingredient to driving success and growth is to deliver high quality and high design oriented product that will enhance our customers’ home. With a keen sense of fashion and a pulse on current trends, we have been growing our company over the last 20 years to include a wide variety of “must have” products for the home.

Forward-Looking Information
This press release contains certain forward-looking statements related to Rambus, The Elite Group, and the Rambus LED Bulb, including the future partnership with The Elite Group, the terms and conditions of any future definitive agreement between the parties and the anticipated benefits thereof, as well as potential future product offerings and the expected timing thereof. Actual events or results may differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements, including the possibility of a delay, postponement or inability to execute a definitive partnership agreement with The Elite Group and commercial availability of Rambus product offerings. Please refer to the documents Rambus files from time to time with the SEC, including Rambus’ most recent Form 10-K and Form 10-Q, as well as Rambus’ future filings. Although Rambus believes that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, Rambus cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance, or achievements. Rambus is under no duty to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this press release to conform to actual results.

Cooper Lighting and Rambus Sign License Agreement to Provide Innovative, LED-Based Lighting Solutions

Agreement covers Rambus’ patented innovations for edge-lit lighting solutions

PEACHTREE, GEORGIA, UNITED STATES and SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES – 05/07/2012 – Cooper Lighting, an industry leader committed to delivering innovative products and driving transformational technology in the lighting industry, and Rambus today announced they have signed a licensing agreement for the use of Rambus’ patented lighting innovations. Cooper will focus on creating LED-based lighting fixtures for commercial, industrial and utility markets.

“As a leading provider of innovative, high-quality lighting fixtures and controls, one of our objectives is to quickly launch leading-edge products that help accelerate the adoption of quality LED lighting solutions around the world,” said Mark Eubanks, president, Cooper Lighting. “We are committed to consistently providing superior products that extend beyond our customers’ needs and this agreement with Rambus allows us to exceed their expectations.”

“As one of the most innovative lighting fixture companies in the world, Cooper Lighting is an excellent partner for Rambus,” said Jeff Parker, president of the Lighting and Display Technology business at Rambus. “Working together, we can create an exciting new generation of advanced LED-based lighting products with unique form factors that are cost-competitive and energy efficient.”

Cooper Lighting will showcase over 100 innovative Lighting and Controls products at LIGHTFAIR INTERNATIONAL (May 9 – 11, in Las Vegas, Nev., booth #2524).

Cooper Lighting has made a significant investment in people, resources and technology to ensure the company provides first-class solutions to its customers’ lighting challenges. In 2009, the company opened a world-class 60,000 square-foot LED Innovation Center to design, test and manufacture reliable LED products. The company offers a range of indoor and outdoor LED lighting products and controls, all of which are specifically designed to maximize energy and cost savings.

About Cooper Lighting

Cooper Lighting, a subsidiary of Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE), is the leading provider of world-class lighting fixtures and controls to commercial, industrial, retail, institutional, residential and utility markets. As lighting technologies have advanced over the years, Cooper Lighting has been at the forefront of the industry in helping businesses and communities leverage the latest technologies to improve efficiency, reduce costs and enrich the quality of the environment. For more information, visit www.cooperlighting.com.

About Rambus Inc.

Founded in 1990, Rambus is one of the world’s premier technology licensing companies. As a company of inventors, Rambus focuses on the development of technologies that enrich the end-user experience of electronic systems. Its breakthrough innovations and solutions help industry-leading companies bring superior products to market. Rambus licenses both its world-class patent portfolio, as well as its family of leadership and industry-standard solutions. Rambus has offices in California, North Carolina, Ohio, India, Germany, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Additional information is available at www.rambus.com.

About Cooper Industries

Cooper Industries plc (NYSE: CBE) is a global electrical products manufacturer with 2011 revenues of $5.4 billion. Founded in 1833 Cooper’s sustained success is attributable to a constant focus on innovation and evolving business practices, while maintaining the highest ethical standards and meeting customer needs. The Company has seven operating divisions with leading market positions and world-class products and brands, including Bussmann electrical and electronic fuses; Crouse-Hinds and CEAG explosion-proof electrical equipment; Halo and Metalux lighting fixtures; and Kyle and McGraw-Edison power systems products. With this broad range of products, Cooper is uniquely positioned for several long-term growth trends including the global infrastructure build-out, the need to improve the reliability and productivity of the electric grid, the demand for higher energy-efficient products and the need for improved electrical safety. In 2011 sixty-two percent of total sales were to customers in the industrial and utility end-markets and forty percent of total sales were to customers outside the United States. Cooper has manufacturing facilities in 23 countries as of 2011. For more information, visit the website at www.cooperindustries.com.

Rambus Signs License Agreement with Fern Howard to Develop LED Lighting Products

Agreement covers Rambus’ lighting solutions and patented innovations for lighting focused on European and Middle Eastern markets

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES and ALTON, HAMPSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM – 04/02/2012 – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), one of the world’s premier technology licensing companies, today announced it has signed a license agreement with Fern Howard, a market-leading manufacturer of energy efficient lighting. This agreement enables Fern Howard to sell advanced lighting products based on Rambus lighting solutions incorporating Rambus patented innovations including MicroLens® optics technology.

“We are excited to see Rambus lighting solutions expand into the European and Middle Eastern markets with the help of Fern Howard,” said Jeff Parker, president of the Lighting and Display Technology business at Rambus. “Using key Rambus technologies, Fern Howard fixtures will achieve a level of styling, application efficiency, and precise control of light unmatched in the bulkhead and utility lighting industry.”

“We believe edge-lit technology is the much sought-after link between conventional area lighting fixtures and wide-scale LED adoption. It not only provides a pleasing, uniform light source, but when coupled with highly sophisticated MicroLens technology, enables a level of lighting control that is impossible to achieve with other, less efficient LED solutions,” said Peter Scott, managing director of Fern Howard. “We are delighted to be working with Rambus and will be showing the first results of our collaboration with five new edge-lit products at Light+Build in April.”

Market demands for energy-efficient lighting solutions are rising rapidly, and LED lighting products are the focus for the next-generation of fixtures in architectural, retail, commercial, and residential lighting. Rambus’ lighting solutions enable general lighting products to harness the benefits of LEDs by maximizing the useable light output through precision ray angle control and excellent optical efficiency.

Based on patented Rambus innovations – including LED edge-lit optical designs, MicroLens light distribution features, high-volume, low-cost light guide panels, and multi-function film manufacturing technologies – these lighting solutions allow customers to harness all the benefits of LEDs in affordable general lighting products. All while using fewer or lower-cost LEDs, and delivering excellent light quality and output.

About Rambus Inc.
Founded in 1990, Rambus is one of the world’s premier technology licensing companies. As a company of inventors, Rambus focuses on the development of technologies that enrich the end-user experience of electronic systems. Its breakthrough innovations and solutions help industry-leading companies bring superior products to market. Rambus licenses both its world-class patent portfolio, as well as its family of leadership and industry-standard solutions. Rambus has offices in California, North Carolina, Ohio, India, Germany, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Additional information is available at www.rambus.com.

About Fern Howard
Based in Alton, Hampshire, Fern Howard was formed in 1972 as a supplier of electrical assemblies to the lighting industry. Since then, the company has become a market leading manufacturer of energy efficient lighting. Fern Howard Lighting believe in making life easy – for specifiers, installers and end users alike – and to this end are totally committed to offering the highest quality products and service to all our customers.

GE Lighting Shows LED Edge Lighting Fixtures Enabled by Rambus Pentelic™ Lighting Solution at LightFair 2011

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES – 05/18/2011 – GE Lighting’s participation at LightFair 2011 this week spotlights the progress that its engineering and technology teams have made with the development of a line of energy-efficient LED edge lighting fixtures enabled by Pentelic™ lighting solutions, an offering from Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq:RMBS), one of the world’s premier technology licensing companies.

The new LED fixtures will be available as ultra-sleek ceiling troffers and suspended fixtures that will appear to float in thin air through a dramatically framed light source. Each will feature high-quality transparent or opaque light panels coupled with Rambus MicroLens™ technology that will allow lighting designers to customize a fixture’s light output.

“At GE, we are entering a new era of solid state lighting and creating products that will allow end users to do so much more with light,” says Steven Briggs, vice president of marketing and global product management with GE Lighting Solutions. “Our new LED edge lighting fixtures will represent a once-a-century turning point in the world of lighting. This new innovation will finally make LEDs a viable solution for widespread use in ambient commercial and residential applications.”

Market demands for energy-efficient lighting solutions are drastically increasing, and LED lighting products are the focus for the next-generation of fixtures in architectural, retail, commercial, and residential lighting. Rambus’ Pentelic solutions enable general lighting products to harness the benefits of LEDs by maximizing the useable light output through precision ray angle control and excellent optical efficiency.

“The relationship with GE showcases our innovations which enable a new generation of advanced LED-based lighting products,” says Jeff Parker, president of the Lighting and Display Technology business at Rambus. “Based on key Rambus innovations such as MicroLens™ optics and TruEdge™ LED coupling technology, the GE edge lighting fixtures will achieve a level of styling, application efficiency, flexibility and precise control of light unmatched in the industry.”

About Rambus Inc.

Founded in 1990, Rambus is one of the world’s premier technology licensing companies. As a company of inventors, Rambus focuses on the development of technologies that enrich the end-user experience of electronic systems. Its breakthrough innovations and solutions help industry-leading companies bring superior products to market. Rambus licenses both its world-class patent portfolio, as well as its family of leadership and industry-standard solutions. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Rambus has regional offices in North Carolina, Ohio, India, Germany, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Additional information is available at www.rambus.com.