At Rambus, we create cutting-edge semiconductor and IP products, providing industry-leading chips and silicon IP to make data faster and safer.
Did you know that the terms “latency” and “bandwidth” are frequently misused?
According to Loren Shalinsky, a Strategic Development Director at Rambus, latency refers to how long the CPU needs to wait before the first data is available. Meanwhile, bandwidth describes how fast additional data can be “streamed” after the first data point has arrived.
Rambus’ lensless smart sensor (LSS) technology took center stage at a recent summit in San Francisco co-hosted by frog San Francisco and IXDS from Berlin. This event represented the culmination of several months of intense design innovation collaboration between Rambus and its “Partners in Open Development (POD).” In this context, they worked together to conceive and develop functional prototype product design concepts based on LSS hardware and software.
KitGuru’s Anton Shilov reports that DDR4 prices have dropped approximately 25% since late June. “According to DRAMeXchange, the world’s leading computer memory tracker, one 4Gb DDR4 chip rated to run at 2133MHz cost $3.618 on the spot market on the 28th of June 2015,” he explained.
Ernest Worthman of Semiconductor Engineering recently noted that we have entered an age where technology is expected to do more, faster, anonymously, and often invisibly. “It’s supposed to use less power, with smaller footprints, unobtrusively and intuitively,” he explained. “And all that needs to be protected with cryptography.”
Driven by Big Data and new applications, modern servers and data centers are out of synch with current demands – due to increasing requirements for real-time access to large amounts of information. That is precisely why Rambus’ Smart Data Acceleration (SDA) research program focuses on architectures designed to offload computing closer to very large data sets at multiple points in the memory and storage hierarchy.
Ann Steffora Mutschler of Semiconductor Engineering recently noted that malicious hacking has existed since the dawn of connected electronics. However, says Mutschler, such hacks are now occurring with increasing sophistication in the automotive sector. “Even high-end vehicles suffer security flaws that are too costly or not worthwhile to fix,” she explained. “The result is that the automotive sector is scrambling to cover its bases and they’re starting with the parts that are highest priority.”
