A recent iRunway report on the semiconductor memory landscape ranked Rambus in the fourth position of the top ten seminal patent holders in DRAM technology.
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Jerome Nadel to talk smart cities @ MWC 2015
On March 3rd, Rambus CMO Jerome Nadel will participate in 4YFN’s MWC 2015 panel discussion about the Internet of Things (IoT), smart sensors and the evolution of smart cities.
Mobile DRAM industry valued at over $3.6 billion
DRAMeXchange, a division of TrendForce, recently confirmed worldwide mobile DRAM revenue of US$3.607 billion in the fourth quarter of 2014 – representing 27.8% of DRAM industry value and a 4.2% quarterly increase. In addition, mobile DRAM made up nearly 40% of all DRAM shipments.
From GDDR to HBM
A recent KitGuru report suggests AMD has designed its upcoming Radeon R9 380X with high bandwidth memory, or HBM, a next-gen stacked DRAM memory standard. “Although HBM provides DDR3 – like bit rate per pin (HBM1=1GHz, HBM2=2GHz), the standard more than compensates with its channel of 128 bits each,” Loren Shalinsky, a Strategic Development Director at Rambus, explained. “This results in an interface that can support 1024 bits x 2GHz = 2048 Gbits/sec (256GB/sec). The HBM stack (as defined in HBM2) can actually have up to 8 die in the stack. The standard doesn’t specify how many channels are on each die.”
U.S. DoD eyes 3D printing
Writing for Military Embedded Systems, Editorial Director John McHale confirms 3D printing has made its way into the military embedded computing realm, with suppliers exploiting the technology to accelerate production and reduce development costs. “They can save thousands of dollars by printing heat sinks, connectors, components and even printed circuit boards,” he explained.
Will authentication evolve beyond the basics?
Writing for The Guardian, journalist Andy Meek questions if increasing cyber attacks ultimately mean the end of username and password security. “The username and password has long been the basic set of authentication credentials that grants access into computer and web-based systems and networks,” he explains.
