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Lattice and Rambus to Partner on Next-Generation Security Solutions

SAN JOSE, Calif. and Hillsboro, OR – April 26, 2021 – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), a provider of industry-leading chips and silicon IP making data faster and safer, and Lattice Semiconductor (NASDAQ: LSCC), the low power programmable leader, today announced a partnership to leverage their respective technology expertise in next-generation security solutions. Through the partnership, customers will have access to Rambus secure hardware IP on Lattice FPGAs for communications, computing, industrial, automotive, and consumer applications.

“System developers need access to the latest and greatest security technologies to protect their devices against increasing cyberattacks,” said Eric Sivertson, vice president of Security Business at Lattice. “Lattice is constantly expanding our portfolio of award-winning security products, solutions and services, and we’re excited to add Rambus’ security expertise to our partner ecosystem.”

“The rapidly expanding cyber threat environment and increasingly sophisticated adversaries make data and device security mission-critical,” said Neeraj Paliwal, general manager of Security at Rambus. “This collaboration between Rambus and Lattice will provide the highest level of protection for next-generation systems across a broad range of emerging applications.”

 

About Rambus Inc.
Rambus is a provider of industry-leading chips and silicon IP making data faster and safer. With over 30 years of advanced semiconductor experience, we are a pioneer in high-performance memory subsystems that solve the bottleneck between memory and processing for data-intensive systems. Whether in the cloud, at the edge or in your hand, real-time and immersive applications depend on data throughput and integrity. Rambus products and innovations deliver the increased bandwidth, capacity and security required to meet the world’s data needs and drive ever-greater end-user experiences. For more information, visit rambus.com.

About Lattice Semiconductor

Lattice Semiconductor is the low power programmable leader. We solve customer problems across the network, from the Edge to the Cloud, in the growing communications, computing, industrial, automotive, and consumer markets. Our technology, long-standing relationships, and commitment to world-class support lets our customers quickly and easily unleash their innovation to create a smart, secure and connected world. For more information, visit latticesemi.com.

Rambus Joins DARPA Toolbox Initiative with State-of-the-Art Security and Interface IP

Highlights: 

  • Agreement makes Rambus Root of Trust, Secure Protocol Engines, along with Memory and SerDes PHYs and Controllers available to DARPA researchers
  • Streamlined access to cutting-edge silicon IP accelerates forward-looking innovation
  • DARPA researchers will be able to leverage industry-leading capabilities and expertise from Rambus

SAN JOSE, Calif. – April 14, 2021 – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), a provider of industry-leading chips and silicon IP making data faster and safer, today announced a commercial licensing agreement with the U.S. Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) to accelerate technology innovation for the agency’s programs. The agreement makes all Rambus security, memory interface, and SerDes interface IP products available to DARPA researchers. As licensees, DARPA researchers benefit by having access to IP offering renowned security protection and the world’s fastest chip interfaces.

“Rambus has the industry’s broadest portfolio of state-of-the-art security IP products, and offers leading interface IP at some of the highest bandwidths available,” said Sean Fan, chief operating officer at Rambus. “We are excited to add our full suite of cutting-edge silicon IP to DARPA Toolbox, and look forward to the new opportunities to provide our solutions and expertise for their ecosystem.”

The DARPA Toolbox initiative is an agency-wide effort to provide open licensing opportunities with commercial technology vendors to the researchers behind DARPA programs. Through DARPA Toolbox, successful proposers will receive greater access to commercial vendors’ technologies and tools via pre-negotiated, low-cost, non-production access frameworks and simplified legal terms. For commercial vendors, DARPA Toolbox will provide an opportunity to leverage the agency’s forward-looking research and a chance to develop new revenue streams based on programmatic achievements developed with their technologies.

“With Rambus joining our DARPA Toolbox Initiative, we add state-of-the-art security and interface technologies,” Serge Leef, the Microsystems Technology Office (MTO) program manager at DARPA leading DARPA Toolbox. “Our researchers will now have streamlined access to this cutting-edge IP to accelerate the speed of development for their projects.”

Through the DARPA Toolbox, researchers will have access to all Rambus Security, Memory Interface and SerDes Interface IP solutions including:

 Rambus Security IP

Rambus Memory and SerDes Interface IP

Rambus is one of a limited number of select technology companies to sign commercial partnership agreements under DARPA Toolbox. Rambus technologies under the initiative serve a broad range of applications from Data Center, Edge, 5G networking, Artificial Intelligence (AI), to Internet of Things (IoT).

For more information on Rambus Security solutions, please visit rambus.com/security. To learn more about Rambus Interface IP, visit rambus.com/interface-ip/.

Rambus IPsec Packet Engine Secures 5G Networking at 10 Gbps

Highlights: 

  • Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) Packet Engine with integrated Data Plane Development Kit (DPDK) and companion key negotiation toolkit provides complete solution for securing 5G networking from 1 to 10 Gbps data rates
  • Easily integrates into SoCs for 5G base stations, core network, gateways and end points
  • Supports 3GPP, TLS, DTLS protocols, all relevant IPsec RFCs, and NIST-compliant algorithms

SAN JOSE, Calif. – Oct. 27, 2020 – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), a premier silicon IP and chip provider making data faster and safer, today announced the availability of a high-performance IPsec Packet Engine with integrated DPDK and companion key negotiation toolkit capable of securing 5G network traffic at data rates from 1 to 10 Gbps. A complete IPsec solution, the packet engine can be easily integrated into SoCs for a broad range of 5G devices from base stations and cloud, to gateways and end devices. This new engine is optimized to support the required protocols up to 10 Gbps with the most efficient footprint.

5G offers ten times the throughput and one hundred times the capacity of 4G networks. This increased jump in performance is enabled through more powerful devices, software-defined networking and application virtualization. All of these create greater complexity and higher demands on network processors and CPUs with the impact of greater latency. Offloading cryptographic operations to a dedicated IPsec Packet Engine streamlines processing and enables network traffic to be moved securely at line rate. Along with IPsec, for base stations and gateways, the solution has configurations that allow simultaneous IPsec, 3GPP and TLS processing on the packet engine.

“A host of new real-time applications are possible with the speed and bandwidth of 5G networks,” said Neeraj Paliwal, vice president and general manager, Rambus Security. “By anchoring security in hardware with our new IPsec Packet Engine, data on 5G networks can flow at full speed and be safeguarded from attack.”

Benefits of the Rambus IPsec Packet Engines:

  • Secures 5G network traffic with IPsec protocol at data rates from 1 to 10 Gbps. For the core and cloud server, Rambus offers dedicated high-end solutions for MACsec and IPsec.
  • Provides complete solution with integrated DPDK and companion key negotiation tool kit.
  • Supports 3GPP, PDCP, TLS, SSL, DTLS, IPsec protocols, as well as a broad portfolio of NIST-compliant algorithms. As an option, the packet engine can be enhanced with country-specific security targeting SoCs for the global market, satisfying specific regional requirements.
  • Backed by renowned Rambus security expertise and support.
  • Easily integrates into SoCs designed for 5G base stations, cloud network devices, gateways and end point devices.

Availability
The Rambus IPsec Packet Engine is available today for licensing and integrating into SoC designs.

Additional Information
For more information on the Rambus Security IP, including the IPsec Packet Engine for 5G, please visit rambus.com/security/.

Rambus Announces Complete 800G MACsec Solution for Enhanced Data Center and 5G Infrastructure Security

Highlights: 

  • Integrated hardware-based solution delivers full line-rate MACsec security at 100G to 800G data rates
  • Supports multi-channel, multi-rate implementations with flexible bandwidth allocation
  • Delivers enhanced data security for cloud, enterprise and carrier network applications as well as network-attached, high-performance computing (HPC) and AI/ML
MACsec Implementation with MACsec-IP-163/164
MACsec Implementation with MACsec-IP-163/164

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Apr. 29, 2020 – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), a premier silicon IP and chip provider making data faster and safer, today announced its 800G MACsec (Media Access Control security) solution for next-generation networking infrastructure. The 800G MACsec solution delivers hardware-based, point-to-point security for 800 Gigabit Ethernet links and is a critical element of end-to-end network security. Protecting data in motion, MACsec can identify and prevent security threats such as denial of service, intrusion, man-in-the-middle, passive eavesdropping and masquerading attacks. With growing demand for low-latency communications to support real-time applications such as AI/ML inference, in-line, full-rate secure communication of data traffic with MACsec is imperative. The Rambus 800G MACsec solution addresses this need with a hardware engine delivering MACsec security with no degradation to the speed of data transmission.

“Our world has changed dramatically in just a few months, with a global shift to our homes being the center of work, schooling and entertainment. This has put enormous strain on the global data infrastructure. The evolution to 800 GbE will be a key enabler on the path forward,” said Neeraj Paliwal, vice president and general manager of Rambus Security. “Our 800G MACsec protocol engine leverages a scalable architecture that supports configurations of one to many ports with an aggregate bandwidth of up to 800 Gbps. This flexibility provides the benefit of limiting the silicon cost for security, while safeguarding required data communications.”

Built with decades of security engineering experience, Rambus MACsec IP solutions have been broadly adopted across the industry spanning multiple generations of the MACsec standard. Thanks to a proven track record of performance, software compatibility and API scalability, the Rambus MACsec-IP-163/164 is the go-to solution of network chip and system companies. To speed the design process, the MACsec engine is delivered with a driver development kit (DDK). For customers building system-level solutions, Rambus offers a MACsec Toolkit that implements the Port-based Network Access Control (PNAC) standard and facilitates development and testing of MACsec-compliant processing.

The Rambus 800G MACsec-IP-163/164 solution comprises a classifier and transform engine for deployment of the MACsec Layer 2 secure communication protocol. Implemented in hardware, this Rambus solution can deliver full line-rate MACsec security from 100G to 800G, making it an ideal choice for 800 GbE and 800GBASE-R. Driven by the continued exponential growth in data traffic, 800 GbE is expected to be broadly deployed across hyperscale data centers, enterprises and carrier networks as well as in network-attached high-performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) / machine learning (ML).

Benefits of Rambus 800G MACsec Solution

  • Full line-rate MACsec security from 100G to 800G with any packet and transform mix
  • Multi-rate, multi-channel support with flexible bandwidth allocation
  • Complies with the IEEE 802.1ae MACsec standard and its successors
  • Additional classification and transformation options to support advanced use-cases and deployments
  • Supplied with widely-adopted driver development kit (DDK)
  • Supports secure data communications across data center, enterprise, carrier networks, network-attached HPC and AI/ML

For more information on the Rambus 800G MACsec solution, please visit https://www.rambus.com/security/protocol-engines/macsec-engines/macsec-ip-163-164/ or read our blog post at https://www.rambus.com/blogs/rambus-launches-800g-macsec-multi-channel-engine/.

Rambus Licenses DPA Countermeasures to Utimaco

Cutting-edge hardware-based security technologies protect against side-channel attacks

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – March 25, 2020 – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS) a premier silicon IP and chip provider making data faster and safer, today announced that it has signed a patent license agreement with Utimaco, a leading supplier of Hardware Security Modules (HSMs). The agreement includes the use of Rambus patents such as Differential Power Analysis (DPA) Countermeasures, which protect devices and integrated circuits against DPA and other related side-channel attacks. Specific terms of the agreement are confidential.

Developed by Rambus, DPA countermeasures incorporate extensive software, hardware and protocol techniques that protect devices from side-channel attacks, which are implemented in tamper-resistant products used in various applications. For more information on Rambus DPA Countermeasures and other security offerings, please visit https://www.rambus.com/security/.

Rambus Completes Acquisition of the Verimatrix Silicon IP, Secure Protocols and Provisioning Business

Creates industry’s most comprehensive portfolio of silicon-proven security IP

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – Dec. 8, 2019 – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), a premier silicon IP and chip provider making data faster and safer, today announced the completed acquisition of the silicon IP, secure protocols and provisioning business from Verimatrix, formerly Inside Secure, for $45 million at closing, and up to an additional $20 million, subject to certain revenue targets for the transferred business for the calendar year 2020. The combined portfolio of products, including the secure silicon IP and provisioning solutions from both companies, creates the most comprehensive silicon-proven security IP portfolio in the industry.

“This acquisition is a natural fit for the company in line with our areas of focus in semiconductor,” said Luc Seraphin, president and CEO of Rambus. “The addition of this business from Verimatrix augments our portfolio of mission-critical embedded security products and expands our offerings for data center, AI, networking and automotive.”

Although this transaction will not materially impact 2019 financial results due to the timing of close and acquisition accounting, Rambus expects this acquisition to be accretive in 2020.

For more information, visit rambus.com/insidesecure.