Pro­duc­tion-rea­dy PHY IP will address the high-per­for­mance needs of enter­pri­se systems

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – July 26, 2016 – Ram­bus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS) today announ­ced that it has deve­lo­ped an R+ DDR4 PHY on the GLOBALFOUNDRIES FX-14™ ASIC plat­form using the company’s most advan­ced 14nm Power Plus (LPP) pro­cess. As part of a com­pre­hen­si­ve suite of memo­ry and Ser­Des inter­face offe­rings for net­wor­king and data cen­ter appli­ca­ti­ons, Ram­bus has achie­ved the first pro­duc­tion-rea­dy 3200 Mbps DDR4 PHY available on GLOBALFOUNDRIES power-per­for­mance opti­mi­zed 14nm LPP pro­cess. The R+ DDR4 PHY is desi­gned to meet the per­for­mance and capa­ci­ty demands of the next wave of data cen­ter and net­wor­king markets.

“As we beco­me more reli­ant on the cloud and the stres­ses pla­ced on data cen­ters con­ti­nues to grow, the need for memo­ry offe­rings that pro­mi­se fas­ter speeds and hig­her band­width has never been more important,” said Luc Sera­phin, seni­or vice pre­si­dent and gene­ral mana­ger of the Ram­bus Memo­ry and Inter­faces divi­si­on. “Tog­e­ther with GLOBALFOUNDRIES, we have been able to deve­lop the industry’s first DDR4 PHY on a 14nm LPP pro­cess run­ning at 3200 Mbps and capa­ble of achie­ving the per­for­mance requi­re­ments of next-gene­ra­ti­on systems.”

“GLOBALFOUNDRIES’ FX-14™ plat­form, based on our advan­ced 14nm LPP tech­no­lo­gy, is desi­gned to sup­port the memo­ry inten­si­ve com­pu­ting tasks in today’s most deman­ding enter­pri­se appli­ca­ti­ons,” said Kevin O’Buckley, vice pre­si­dent pro­duct deve­lo­p­ment GLOBALFOUNDRIES. “At 3200 Mbps, the R+ DDR4/3 PHY deli­vers the maxi­mum data rate sup­port­ed by the stan­dard enab­ling advan­ced func­tion­a­li­ty like simul­ta­neous strea­ming of Ultra HD con­tent. We look for­ward to con­ti­nue col­la­bo­ra­ting with Ram­bus as we deve­lop a ful­ly-fea­tured suite of memo­ry pro­ducts desi­gned to ensu­re the best per­for­mance for today’s data centers.”

The Ram­bus R+ DDR4 PHY is DFI 4.0 com­pa­ti­ble, pro­vi­ding easy inte­gra­ti­on, and enables cus­to­mers to dif­fe­ren­tia­te their offe­rings by pro­vi­ding indus­try-lea­ding per­for­mance while main­tai­ning full com­pa­ti­bi­li­ty with indus­try stan­dard DDR4, and DDR3/3L/3U inter­faces. Desi­gned for fle­xi­bi­li­ty, the R+ DDR4 PHY deli­vers data rates from 800 to 3200 Mbps in mul­ti­ple memo­ry sub-sys­tem opti­ons inclu­ding die down, DIMM, and 3DS. In addi­ti­on, the PHY sup­ports 16 – 72-bit inter­faces, along with sin­gle and mul­ti-rank con­fi­gu­ra­ti­ons, allo­wing the end cus­to­mer to opti­mi­ze their design for per­for­mance, as well as both area and low power.

For more infor­ma­ti­on on R+ DDR4 and our other memo­ry PHYs, visit rambus.com/ddrnphys.

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About Ram­bus Memo­ry and Inter­faces Divi­si­on (MID)

The Ram­bus Memo­ry and Inter­faces Divi­si­on deve­lo­ps pro­ducts and ser­vices that sol­ve the power, per­for­mance, and capa­ci­ty chal­lenges of the mobi­le, con­nec­ted device, and cloud com­pu­ting mar­kets. Ram­bus enhan­ced stan­dards-com­pa­ti­ble and cus­tom memo­ry and seri­al link solu­ti­ons include chips, archi­tec­tures, memo­ry and chip-to-chip inter­faces, DRAM, IP vali­da­ti­on tools, and sys­tem and IC design ser­vices. Deve­lo­ped through our sys­tem-awa­re design metho­do­lo­gy, Ram­bus pro­ducts deli­ver impro­ved time-to-mar­ket and first-time-right quality.

About Ram­bus Inc.

Ram­bus crea­tes cut­ting-edge semi­con­duc­tor and IP pro­ducts, span­ning memo­ry and inter­faces to secu­ri­ty, smart sen­sors and light­ing. Our chips, cus­to­mizable IP cores, archi­tec­tu­re licen­ses, soft­ware, tools, ser­vices, trai­ning and inno­va­tions impro­ve the com­pe­ti­ti­ve advan­ta­ge of our cus­to­mers. We col­la­bo­ra­te with the indus­try, part­ne­ring with lea­ding ASIC and SoC desi­gners, found­ries, IP deve­lo­pers, EDA com­pa­nies and vali­da­ti­on labs. Our pro­ducts are inte­gra­ted into tens of bil­li­ons of devices and sys­tems, powe­ring and secu­ring diver­se appli­ca­ti­ons, inclu­ding Big Data, Inter­net of Things (IoT), mobi­le, con­su­mer and media plat­forms. At Ram­bus, we are makers of bet­ter. For more infor­ma­ti­on, visitrambus.com.