TORONTO – Rambus Inc. said it has developed the first production-ready 3200 Mbps DDR4 PHY available on Globalfoundries Inc.’s FX-14 ASIC platform using its power-performance optimized 14nm LPP process.
The Rambus R+ DDR4 PHY intellectual property uses Rambus’ proprietary R+ architecure, based on the DDR industry standard. The PHY is part of the Rambus’ suite of memory and SerDes interface offerings for networking and data center applications, said Frank Ferro, senior director of product management at Rambus. Meeting the performance and capacity demands of those segments are a heavy focus for the company, he said in a telephone interview with EE Times.