Rambus Announces Breakthrough in Mobile Memory

Rambus, a leading technology licensing company focusing on high-speed memory architectures, recently announced its Mobile Memory Initiative. According to the company, this initiative is focused on the development of high-bandwidth, low-power memory technologies designed to achieve data rates of 4.3Gbps, also offering the best-in-class power efficiency. Designed for the next generation of netbooks, portable gaming and media products, these technologies are expected to enable more than 17Gigabytes per second, from a single mobile DRAM device, offering a high level of performance for the aforementioned devices.

 

“As consumer expectations grow for more media-rich applications on their mobile devices, new memory solutions will be needed to keep pace with the rapidly increasing bandwidth requirements,” said Martin Scott, senior vice president of Research and Technology Development at Rambus. “With the breakthrough technologies developed through the Mobile Memory Initiative, Rambus enables a broad range of advanced mobile applications that will enrich the lives of consumers worldwide.”

 

The company says that it will demonstrate a silicon test vehicle at the DesignCon 2009, in order to showcase the performance capabilities of its Mobile Memory Initiative. The innovations brought by the initiative include a Very Low-Swing Differential Signaling, FlexClocking Architecture and Advanced Power State Management. In addition, Rambus' Mobile Memory Initiative has been combined with technologies such as FlexPhase and Microthreading, which will enable designers to provide a higher level of performance for different mobile devices, including smartphones, netbooks, portable gaming and portable media products.

 

The memory company hasn't provided any names regarding the companies that are expected to incorporate the MMI technology into their products. However, such devices aren't expected to hit the market until early 2009.

 

Aside from licensing memory technologies, Rambus is also known for the its lawsuits against some of the major hardware manufacturers, including NVIDIA and AMD.