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Rambus Reveals Smart Data Acceleration Research Program

Slated to improve performance and power efficiency for data centers

SUNNYVALE, Calif. – September 14, 2015 – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS) today announced the Smart Data Acceleration (SDA) Research Program designed to tackle major issues facing data centers in the age of Big Data. The SDA Research Program has been exploring new architectures for servers and data centers that are optimized for rack-level Big Data computation, targeting significant improvements in performance and power efficiency, as the industry brings computing closer to data.

“Modern servers are out of balance with today’s needs – data centers are under stress due to escalating demands of real-time access to large amounts of information driven by Big Data and new applications,” said Laura Stark, senior vice president and general manager of the Emerging Solutions division at Rambus. “This research platform focuses on architectures that offload computing closer to very large data sets at multiple points in the memory and storage hierarchy.”

As part of the program, Rambus has created a platform to investigate system architectures that include software, firmware, FPGAs and large amounts of memory. The platform can be used to test new methods to optimize and accelerate data analytics for extremely large data sets.

With use cases including real-time risk analytics, ad serving, neural imaging, transcoding and genome mapping, the Rambus SDA Research program is a key technology investment for the next generation of data centers.

More details about the Rambus SDA Research program can be found at rambus.com/sda.

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Inspired by the innovative thinking at the heart of Rambus Labs, the Emerging Solutions division at Rambus works to translate extraordinary theory into everyday practice, imagining exciting new ways to interpret and reimagine the world of data around us.

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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, 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, visit rambus.com.

Rambus Launches Partners-in-Open-Development Program to Accelerate Adoption of Lensless Smart Sensor Technology

Collaboration with inaugural partners — frog and IXDS — enables development across critical IoT application areas

SUNNYVALE, Calif., and BARCELONA, Spain — March 2, 2015 — Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS) today announced its Partners-in-Open-Development (POD) program in collaboration with design firms frog and IXDS to promote the adoption of its lensless smart sensor (LSS) technology. The Rambus LSS technology represents a fundamentally new approach to sensing that shifts the function of traditional optics to computation, eliminating the need for expensive lenses. By replacing traditional sensor refraction optics with lensless diffraction and computation, LSS technology enables ultra-miniature form-factor and low-power design, ideal for a wide range of Internet of Things (IoT) applications.

“Our work with lensless smart sensors through the POD program is helping to pave the way for innovations that are sure to inspire and become ubiquitous throughout our lives,” said Andrew Zimmerman, president of frog. “The opportunity to partner with Rambus, through our R&D platform frogLabs™ and other organizations, to build out the burgeoning sensor ecosystem means we are helping to propel solutions that can be adopted much more quickly.”

“Opening its innovative lensless smart technology to the developer community enables Rambus to promote what promises to be a robust, intelligent ecosystem around this new approach to sensing and imaging,” said Dr. Reto Wettach, founder and design director with IXDS. “We are proud to be among the inaugural POD partners and look forward to being among the first contributors to identify and expand upon existing IoT-based applications for this technology.”

The Rambus lensless smart sensor technology consists of spiral grating diffractive optics and computational algorithms that enable reduced computation times and superior design flexibility, delivering more data and improved accuracy versus current sensors comparable in size, power and cost. The combination of spiral grating diffractive optics and computational algorithms provide high fidelity output for greater accuracy and more sophisticated capabilities in the areas of gesture recognition, depth and range tracking, point finding and advanced object recognition.

“With the need for smart sensors growing, our engineers have invented novel ways to become the eyes of the IoT,” said Gary Bronner, vice president of Rambus Labs. “Our Partners-in-Open-Development provides a great opportunity for innovators to develop technology for a smarter world. With this program, we encourage developers across the globe to join in to create new products that introduce real-world IoT applications that will touch so many parts of our lives. This is the first step toward expanding the accessibility of an ecosystem that will foster a new generation of innovation.”

As part of the POD program, Rambus has identified four key verticals to accelerate and amplify discovery of smart applications, which include cities, transportation, manufacturing and medical. To learn more about Rambus, lensless smart sensors and the Partners-in-Open-Development program, visit rambus.com/smartsensors.

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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.

Rambus Unveils Binary Pixel Technology that Dramatically Improves Photo Quality in Mobile Devices

Breakthrough technology Provides Single-Shot High Dynamic Range and Improved Low-Light Sensitivity in a Single Exposure

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES and BARCELONA, SPAIN – 02/25/2013 – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), the innovative technology solutions company that brings invention to market, today unveiled breakthrough binary pixel technology that dramatically improves the quality of photos taken from mobile devices. The Rambus binary pixel technology includes image sensor and image processing architectures with single-shot high dynamic range (HDR) and improved low-light sensitivity for better videos and photos in any lighting condition.

“Today’s compact mainstream sensors are only able to capture a fraction of what the human eye can see,” said Dr. Martin Scott, chief technology officer at Rambus. “Our breakthrough binary pixel technology enables a tremendous performance improvement for compact imagers capable of ultra high-quality photos and videos from mobile devices.”

As improvements are made in resolution and responsiveness, more and more consumers are using the camera functionality on their smart phone as the primary method for taking photos and capturing memories. However, high contrast scenes typical in daily life, such as bright landscapes, sunset portraits, and scenes with both sunlight and shadow, are difficult to capture with today’s compact mobile sensors – the range of bright and dark details in these scenes simply exceeds the limited dynamic range of mainstream CMOS imagers.

This binary pixel technology is optimized at the pixel level to sense light similar to the human eye while maintaining comparable form factor, cost and power of today’s mobile and consumer imagers. The results are professional-quality images and videos from mobile devices that capture the full gamut of details in dark and bright intensities.

Benefits of binary pixel technology:

  • Improved image quality optimized at the pixel level
  • Single-shot HDR photo and video capture operates at high-speed frame-rates
  • Improved signal-to-noise performance in low-light conditions
  • Extended dynamic range through variable temporal and spatial oversampling
  • Silicon-proven technology for mobile form factors
  • Easily integratable into existing SoC architectures
  • Compatible with current CMOS image sensor process technology

The Rambus binary pixel has been demonstrated in a proof-of-concept test-chip and the technology is currently available for integration into future mobile and consumer image sensors. For additional information visit www.rambus.com/binarypixel.

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.

Dr. David G. Stork Elected International Society for Optics and Photonics Fellow

Distinguished Rambus research scientist acknowledged for work in pattern recognition, computer vision, joint design of optics and image processing

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES – 01/24/2012 – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS), one of the world’s premier technology licensing companies, announced today that Dr. David G. Stork has been named a 2012 Fellow of SPIE – the International Society for Optics and Photonics.

“Throughout the course of my career, I’ve been fortunate to conduct research in a wide range of disciplines, including optics, image processing, machine learning, pattern recognition, computer vision, human visual perception and even art history. SPIE has a long history of providing a welcoming environment and resource for such work,” said Dr. David G. Stork. “I’m honored to be recognized by SPIE and look forward to sharing future research on computational imaging through this important organization.”

SPIE Fellows are members of distinction who have made significant scientific and technical contributions in the multidisciplinary fields of optics, photonics and imaging. They are honored for their technical achievement, for their service to the general optics community, and to SPIE in general. More than 950 SPIE members have become Fellows since the Society’s inception in 1955.

Dr. Stork is a renowned expert in optics and the development of algorithms that enable novel sensing, imaging and image analysis techniques. He has published eight books or proceeding volumes on topics such as optics and pattern recognition. In 2011, Dr. Stork joined Rambus as part of Rambus Labs to lead the company’s long-term research in new classes of imaging systems.

Dr. Stork will be recognized and receive a certificate at the Electronics Imaging conference to be held on January 22 – 26 in Burlingame, California. At the conference, Dr. Stork will teach a short course on new methods in computational imaging. In addition, Dr. Stork and colleagues will present a paper on computer vision. To see the full list of 2012 SPIE Fellows visit http://spie.org/x32.xml.

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 SPIE

The international society for optics and photonics, was founded in 1955 to advance light-based technologies. Serving more than 180,000 constituents from 168 countries, the Society advances emerging technologies through interdisciplinary information exchange, continuing education, publications, patent precedent, and career and professional growth. SPIE annually organizes and sponsors approximately 25 major technical forums, exhibitions, and education programs in North America, Europe, Asia, and the South Pacific, and supports scholarships, grants, and other education programs around the world. See www.SPIE.org for information.

Imaging and Optics Expert Dr. David G. Stork Joins Rambus

Industry luminary to lead Rambus Labs initiative in Computational Sensing and Imaging

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES – 08/04/2011 – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS), one of the world’s premier technology licensing companies, today announced the appointment of David G. Stork, Ph.D., to Rambus Labs where he’ll spearhead the development of the company’s computational sensing and imaging initiative. Dr. Stork is a renowned industry expert in optics and the development of algorithms that enable novel sensing, imaging and image analysis techniques. His honors include being named a Fellow from the International Association for Pattern Recognition.

“With a strong heritage in innovation, Rambus continually strives to develop compelling solutions to important problems,” said Dr. Gary Bronner, vice president of Rambus Labs. “Dr. Stork’s expertise in optics and computational sensing, imaging and pattern recognition makes him an ideal leader for our long term research efforts in imaging systems.”

Over the course of his career, Dr. Stork has held many corporate research and academic positions, resulting in 40 patented inventions and numerous books, journal papers, invited papers and plenary talks in leading journals and conferences. Dr. Stork has also held faculty positions as well as visiting professor and lecturer positions at Boston University, Clark University, Stanford University and Swarthmore College.

Dr. Stork holds a Ph.D. and M.S. in Physics from the University of Maryland and a B.S. in Physics from Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is also a senior member of the IEEE.

About Rambus Inc.

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 in semiconductors, lighting and display, and security 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. Founded in 1990, Rambus has offices in California, North Carolina, Ohio, India, Germany, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan. Additional information is available at www.rambus.com.

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