Hardware Attack Surface Widening

An expanding attack surface in hardware, coupled with increasing complexity inside and outside of chips, is making it far more difficult to secure systems against a variety of new and existing types of attacks. Security experts have been warning about the growing threat for some time, but it is being made worse by the need […]

Cliff Burnette

Cliff Burnette Senior Vice President & Chief Human Resources Officer Cliff Burnette is the senior vice president and chief human resources officer (CHRO) of Rambus. Cliff joined the company in 2019 and brings over 20 years of experience leading global human resources (HR) operations for publicly traded companies. He is responsible for human resources, corporate […]

Rambus Reports Fourth Quarter and Fiscal Year 2019 Financial Results

Excellent quarter, exceeding expectations; GAAP revenue of $59.9 million; with licensing billings of $63.8 million, product revenue of $26.6 million, and contract and other revenue of $13.9 million Record Q4 and full-year revenue for both the Memory Interface Chips and Silicon IP businesses $35.4 million in cash provided by operating activities in Q4 and $128.5 […]

Controllers Newsletter – Q1 2020

Looking Ahead to 2020 from Northwest Logic, now part of Rambus Northwest Logic is now part of Rambus Inc., a premier silicon IP and chip provider. We are now proud to offer comprehensive memory and SerDes IP solutions, including PHYs and controllers. We continue to offer standalone controllers, providing customers with the ability to get […]

PCI Express 5 vs. 4: What’s New? [Everything You Need to Know]

Securing our IoT future

The holiday season brought with it a surge of new IoT devices, from smart toys and doorbells to automatic pet feeders – and it doesn’t stop there. According to IDC, investment in IoT is predicted to top $1 trillion in 2020. As our homes, businesses and cities become more connected than ever before, this number […]

Storage and Networking Bytes: PCIe5, OpenShift, and Veeam

Let’s start with PCIe5, the spec for which was finalized in early 2019. Now manufacturers are now getting revved up to produce PCIe5 hardware in 2020, which will be a boon for data- and processor-hungry workloads like machine learning and AI, as well as high performance computing (HPC) workloads that rely on GPUS, FPGAs, and […]

Accelerating AI And ML Applications With PCIe 5

The rapid adoption of sophisticated artificial intelligence/machine learning (AI/ML) applications and the shift to cloud-based workloads has significantly increased network traffic in recent years. Historically, the intensive use of virtualization ensured that server compute capacity adequately met the need of heavy workloads. This was achieved by dividing or partitioning a single (physical) server into multiple […]

Cable Haunt vulnerability can give hackers remote access to approximately 200 million cable modems

Danish cybersecurity experts Alexander Krog, Jens Stærmose and Kasper Terndrup of cybersecurity firm Lyrebirds ApS, and independent Danish researcher Simon Sillesen, announced a new vulnerability dubbed Cable Haunt. In the announcement, they disclosed a critical remote code execution vulnerability in hundreds of millions of cable modems. According to the website the researchers set up, “The […]

What Makes Secure Processors Different?

Given the magnificent complexity of modern microprocessors, it’s inevitable that they’ll have bugs and security holes. It might even be physically impossible to create a bug-free CPU, but that’s a mathematics/physics/EDA/statistics/philosophical conundrum that’s above my paygrade. For now, we finds the bugs and we works around ’em.