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Rambus A19 Lamp Wins Energy Technology ACE Award

Revolutionary lamp, utilizing MicroLens® technology, demonstrates superior energy-efficient innovation for lighting solutions

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — April 07, 2014 — Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS) today announced its revolutionary A19 lamp, first introduced in 2013, has been named as winner in the Energy Technology category of the EE Times and EDN 2014 UBM Tech ACE Awards. This lamp, which utilizes Rambus’ patented MicroLens® optical technology, delivers the light output of a traditional incandescent lamp with the energy efficiency, durability and reliability of advanced LED technology. The Rambus MicroLens technology is also utilized in the WaveStream™ line of LED lighting solutions provided byEaton’s Cooper Lighting Division.

“We are honored to be recognized and included among some of the top innovators in the industry,” said Jerome Nadel, chief marketing officer at Rambus. “Winning the ACE Award in the energy technology category is a testament to the dedication of our inventors, engineers and scientists, and showcases our continued drive to develop lighting products and technology that help reduce energy consumption.”

“We are continually amazed at the level of creativity in the design, innovation and technology exemplified by these award winners,” said Patrick Mannion, vice president and brand director at UBM Tech Electronics. “The ACE Awards celebrate the highest achievements in innovation and creativity in electronics design, and selecting one organization or individual that stands out above the rest is incredibly challenging. We are pleased to be able to celebrate their achievements.”

The Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards celebrate the creators of technology who demonstrate leadership and innovation in the global industry and shape the world we live in. EE Times and EDN ACE Awards were judged by a blue-ribbon panel of industry experts, comprised of the leading voices of academia, industry executives and content experts. The winners were announced at an awards ceremony on Tuesday, April 1 in San Jose as part of the UBM Tech EE Live! 2014 event.

The Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards celebrate the creators of technology who demonstrate leadership and innovation in the global industry and shape the world we live in. EE Times and EDN ACE Awards are judged by a blue-ribbon panel of industry experts, comprised of the leading voices of academia, industry executives and content experts. The ACE Awards winners will be unveiled during a ceremony on April 1, 2014, as part of UBM Tech’s EE Live! Conference.

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Rambus brings invention to market. Our customizable IP cores, architecture licenses, tools, services, and training improve the competitive advantage of our customer’s products while accelerating their time-to-market. Rambus products and innovations capture, secure and move data. For more information, visit rambus.com.

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Rambus Expands Family of Revolutionary LED-based Light Bulbs

The Commercially Available PAR30 and BR30 Complement the Previously Announced A19 Now Providing an Extended Range of Commercial and Consumer Bulbs

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES – 04/18/2013 – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), the innovative technology solutions company that brings invention to market, today announced it has expanded its LED bulb product portfolio to include both PAR30 and BR30 bulbs. Like the previously introduced Rambus A19 bulb, the two new products are built on the company’s MicroLens® optical technology, provide excellent energy efficiency and broad dimmer compatibility, and are designed to provide highly effective thermal management. The new Rambus PAR30 (65-watt equivalent) and BR30 (75-watt equivalent) LED bulbs are designed to address the energy efficiency, reduced glare and lighting experience needs of consumers, property managers, retailers, lighting designers, and specifiers across a wide range of indoor and outdoor lighting applications.

“The LED market is experiencing record growth as consumer and professional demand for energy-efficient products continues to rise and new innovations improve the performance, cost and overall value of LED-based products,” said Jeffery Parker, president of the Rambus Lighting and Display Technology business. “Rambus is at the forefront of LED bulb innovation with our optical technologies, significantly improving light distribution, performance, and overall product lifetime.”

Both the Rambus PAR30 and BR30 LED bulbs exceed lumen output specified by Energy Star. In addition, the superior micro-electronics improve dimmability and provide a better lighting experience. The full portfolio of Rambus LED bulbs are currently available for commercial orders, with shipments expected to start by the third quarter of this year

The Elite Group will promote and sell the Rambus LED bulb portfolio to retail markets within North America, including the broad range of major retail customers already working with Elite. Elite Group’s L’Image home products division will be demonstrating bulbs built on Rambus’ technology at the upcoming National Hardware Show (Booth # 3111), from May 7 – May 9 in Las Vegas.

For additional information on Rambus’s wide-range of lighting innovations, please visitwww.rambus.com/us/technology/applications/lighting/index.html.

About Rambus Inc.
Rambus is the innovative technology solutions company that brings invention to market. Unleashing the intellectual power of our world-class engineers and scientists in a collaborative and synergistic way, Rambus invents, licenses and develops solutions that challenge and enable our customers to create the future. While best known for creating unsurpassed semiconductor memory architectures, Rambus is also developing world-changing products and services in security, advanced LED lighting and displays, and immersive mobile media.

Rambus Signs License Agreement with Fern Howard to Develop LED Lighting Products

Agreement covers Rambus’ lighting solutions and patented innovations for lighting focused on European and Middle Eastern markets

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES and ALTON, HAMPSHIRE, UNITED KINGDOM – 04/02/2012 – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), one of the world’s premier technology licensing companies, today announced it has signed a license agreement with Fern Howard, a market-leading manufacturer of energy efficient lighting. This agreement enables Fern Howard to sell advanced lighting products based on Rambus lighting solutions incorporating Rambus patented innovations including MicroLens® optics technology.

“We are excited to see Rambus lighting solutions expand into the European and Middle Eastern markets with the help of Fern Howard,” said Jeff Parker, president of the Lighting and Display Technology business at Rambus. “Using key Rambus technologies, Fern Howard fixtures will achieve a level of styling, application efficiency, and precise control of light unmatched in the bulkhead and utility lighting industry.”

“We believe edge-lit technology is the much sought-after link between conventional area lighting fixtures and wide-scale LED adoption. It not only provides a pleasing, uniform light source, but when coupled with highly sophisticated MicroLens technology, enables a level of lighting control that is impossible to achieve with other, less efficient LED solutions,” said Peter Scott, managing director of Fern Howard. “We are delighted to be working with Rambus and will be showing the first results of our collaboration with five new edge-lit products at Light+Build in April.”

Market demands for energy-efficient lighting solutions are rising rapidly, and LED lighting products are the focus for the next-generation of fixtures in architectural, retail, commercial, and residential lighting. Rambus’ lighting solutions enable general lighting products to harness the benefits of LEDs by maximizing the useable light output through precision ray angle control and excellent optical efficiency.

Based on patented Rambus innovations – including LED edge-lit optical designs, MicroLens light distribution features, high-volume, low-cost light guide panels, and multi-function film manufacturing technologies – these lighting solutions allow customers to harness all the benefits of LEDs in affordable general lighting products. All while using fewer or lower-cost LEDs, and delivering excellent light quality and output.

About Rambus Inc.
Founded in 1990, Rambus is one of the world’s premier technology licensing companies. As a company of inventors, Rambus focuses on the development of technologies that enrich the end-user experience of electronic systems. Its breakthrough innovations and solutions help industry-leading companies bring superior products to market. Rambus licenses both its world-class patent portfolio, as well as its family of leadership and industry-standard solutions. Rambus has offices in California, North Carolina, Ohio, India, Germany, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Additional information is available at www.rambus.com.

About Fern Howard
Based in Alton, Hampshire, Fern Howard was formed in 1972 as a supplier of electrical assemblies to the lighting industry. Since then, the company has become a market leading manufacturer of energy efficient lighting. Fern Howard Lighting believe in making life easy – for specifiers, installers and end users alike – and to this end are totally committed to offering the highest quality products and service to all our customers.

Rambus Announces Pentelic™ Lighting Solutions

Demonstrates unprecedented performance for LED-based lighting products

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES – 05/17/2011 – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), one of the world’s premier technology licensing companies, today unveiled its Pentelic™ lighting solutions which allow lighting designers to harness all the advantages of light emitting diodes (LEDs). Pentelic solutions include design support for complete lighting fixtures tailored to the specific application requirements of licensees. With Pentelic solutions, licensees can create the highest efficiency edge-lit LED light fixtures using Rambus technology that provides precise ray angle control and unparalleled freedom of design. Because Pentelic solutions address optical design, thermal management and power delivery, licensees can achieve rapid time to market and unprecedented price-performance characteristics in their lighting products.

“By providing 92 to 95% optical efficiency, Pentelic solutions allow our licensees to produce the most advanced and cost-effective LED light fixtures,” said Jeff Parker, president of the Lighting and Display Technology business at Rambus. “In addition, Pentelic solutions provide precise ray angle control so that fixtures put light exactly where it is desired, maximizing lighting application efficiency.”

Rambus is demonstrating the capabilities of Pentelic solutions in a range of example lighting fixtures including hanging pendants, wall sconces, recessed down lights, recessed troffers, streetlights and spotlights.

In addition, Rambus unveiled a hanging pendant fixture created in partnership with renowned lighting designer, Darrell Hawthorne of Architecture & Light, a leading firm of architects and lighting designers located in San Francisco, CA. This hanging pendant demonstrates custom ray angle control and superior application efficiency in an attractive, modern form factor.

“The primary job of the architectural lighting designer is to create beautiful, functional spaces,” said Mr. Hawthorne, founding principal at Architecture & Light. “Pentelic technology, by directing light to where it is needed, helps solve some of the most difficult lighting problems encountered. And with great freedom of design, lighting fixtures can be implemented in forms that creatively engage the space – adding impact to any environment.”

Pentelic solutions are available for licensing and are based on key Rambus innovations including:

  • MicroLens® optics – light distribution features that provide customizable control of uniformity and output ray angle distribution for superior application efficiency;
  • TruEdge™ technology – LED-to-light guide coupling technology which delivers 93%-96% of total LED output to the light guide;
  • SolidCore™ reflectors – compact reflectors capable of producing tightly controlled, efficient and high-intensity beams ideal for spotlights;
  • VirtuOptic™ reflectors – optics that produce a highly collimated, highly efficient light output while delivering precise ray angle control.

 

Additional information on Rambus’ Pentelic lighting solutions is available at www.rambus.com/lighting.

About Rambus Inc.

Founded in 1990, Rambus is one of the world’s premier technology licensing companies. As a company of inventors, Rambus focuses on the development of technologies that enrich the end-user experience of electronic systems. Its breakthrough innovations and solutions help industry-leading companies bring superior products to market. Rambus licenses both its world-class patent portfolio, as well as its family of leadership and industry-standard solutions. Headquartered in Sunnyvale, California, Rambus has regional offices in North Carolina, Ohio, India, Germany, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Additional information is available at www.rambus.com.

Rambus Acquires Patented Innovations and Technology from Global Lighting Technologies

Newly acquired advanced lighting and optoelectronics innovations broaden solutions for computing and consumer applications

LOS ALTOS, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES – 12/14/2009 – – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), one of the world’s premier technology licensing companies, today announced it has acquired technology and a portfolio of advanced lighting and optoelectronics patents from Global Lighting Technologies Inc. (GLT). These patented innovations, which include MicroLens™ light distribution technology, broaden Rambus’ solutions for computing and consumer electronics. As part of this agreement, Rambus will pay GLT $26 million.

In addition, it is expected that twelve people will join Rambus from GLT including Jeff Parker, GLT’s co-founder, former chief executive officer and principal inventor. Most of those joining from GLT will form a new Lighting Technology Division led by Mr. Parker. He and his engineering team will continue the development of Rambus’ newly acquired innovations and provide complete lighting solutions for customers based on this breakthrough technology. Also joining Rambus is Chris Pickett, formerly GLT’s president of the Licensing Division and general counsel, who will serve as a senior licensing executive for the new Lighting Technology Division.

A key application area for the acquired innovations is light emitting diode (LED) backlighting of liquid crystal displays (LCD). LED backlighting solutions are increasingly pervasive in LCD displays for computers, mobile phones, gaming systems and HDTVs, offering advantages in image quality, power efficiency and reliability. These newly acquired innovations enable cost-effective and ultra-thin form factor LCD displays. They are also important for new applications such as advanced LED-based general lighting solutions.

“Adding these breakthrough innovations to our portfolio advances our mission of enriching the consumer experience of electronic systems,” said Harold Hughes, president and chief executive officer of Rambus. “Through the work of Jeff Parker and his team, we will continue to enhance the display of games, movies and images on computers and consumer electronic products.”

“Rambus’ long history of creating and licensing leadership solutions makes it the ideal home for this advanced lighting and optoelectronics technology,” said Jeff Parker, senior vice president Lighting Technology Division of Rambus. “There are tremendous business and technical synergies created by this acquisition. Rambus’ extensive system and integration expertise greatly complements our new LED-based solutions for bright, thin and vibrant displays.”

As a premier technology licensing company, Rambus can accelerate the market adoption of LED backlighting solutions across a broad range of applications. Through this agreement, Rambus has acquired 84 issued patents encompassing numerous innovations in advanced lighting and optoelectronics. GLT will continue its operations as a leading developer and manufacturer of display backlighting products and now becomes a Rambus licensee for the newly acquired patents and technology.

Rambus management will discuss this acquisition during a special conference call today at 3:00 p.m. PT. The call will be webcast and can be accessed through the Rambus website. A replay will be available following the call on Rambus’ Investor Relations website or for one week at the following numbers: (888) 203-1112 (domestic) or (719) 457-0820 (international) with ID# 3063402.

About Rambus Inc.
Rambus is one of the world’s premier technology licensing companies. Founded in 1990, the Company specializes in the invention and design of architectures focused on enhancing the end user experience of computing, communications and consumer electronics applications. Rambus’ patented innovations and breakthrough technologies in the area of high-speed memory architectures and complementary technologies have helped industry-leading chip and system companies bring superior products to market. Rambus’ technology and renowned integration expertise solve some of the most complex chip and system-level interface challenges. Rambus licenses both its world-class patent portfolio as well as its family of leadership and industry-standard interface products. Headquartered in Los Altos, California, Rambus has regional offices in North Carolina, Ohio, India, Germany, Japan, and Taiwan. Additional information is available at www.rambus.com.

Forward Looking Statements
This press release contains forward-looking statements related to the acquisition of patented innovations and technology from Global Lighting Technologies. Actual events or results may differ materially from those contained in the forward-looking statements. Please refer to the documents Rambus files from time to time with the SEC, including Rambus’ most recent Form 10-K and Form 10-Q and the Current Report on Form 8-K filed by Rambus regarding the adoption of FASB Staff Position APB 14-1. These SEC filings contain and identify important factors that could cause Rambus’ consolidated financial results to differ materially from those contained in Rambus’ forward-looking statements. Although Rambus believes that the expectations reflected in the forward-looking statements are reasonable, Rambus cannot guarantee future results, levels of activity, performance, or achievements. Rambus is under no duty to update any of the forward-looking statements after the date of this press release to conform to actual results.

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