Rambus has signed a definitive agreement to purchase Inphi’s Memory Interconnect Business for $90M in cash. The acquisition includes all assets of the Inphi Memory Interconnect Business including product inventory, customer contracts, supply chain agreements and IP.
Memory + Interfaces
A look back at the Nintendo 64 (N64)
The long-awaited Nintendo 64 hit the hot neon city streets of Japan back in June 1996. Powered by a 64-bit NEC VR4300 CPU clocked at 93.75 MHz, the fifth generation console was one of the first to implement a unified memory subsystem and packed 4 megabytes of Rambus RDRAM (subsequently expandable to 8MB).
Optimizing memory bandwidth
Frank Ferro, a senior director of product management at Rambus, recently sat down with Ed Sperling of Semiconductor Engineeringand other industry participants to discuss the slew of new memory initiatives and entrants.
Rambus to talk ANSYS at DAC 2016
Joohee Kim of Rambus will be presenting a paper at DAC 2016 about how ANSYS simulation can be used to make IP more consumable by ensuring the integrity of complex designs. In addition to presenting at ANSYS’ Booth Session, Joohee Kim will be speaking at DAC’s IP Track and Poster Session.
Exploring 2.5D packaging and beyond
Frank Ferro, a Senior Director of Product Marketing at Rambus, recently participated in a Semiconductor Engineering roundtable discussion about 2.5D and advanced packaging. According to Ferro, 2.5D can succeed if customer demand overcomes the additional engineering costs associated with the packaging process.
Semiconductor (silicon) IP market to hit $7 billion by 2022
A new report by MarketsandMarkets projects that the semiconductor (silicon) IP space will be worth $7.01 billion in 2022, up from $3.09 billion in 2015. “The driving factors for the growth of this market include increasing demand for advanced SoCs in the consumer sector, increased funding from governments and investors, emerging IoT ecosystem, recovering automotive sector and growing popularity of miniaturized devices,” MarketsandMarkets researchers explained in a recently published report summary.