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Rambus Named Finalist in Three Categories for 2014 ACE Awards

Recognized among top companies for Executive of the Year, Ultimate Products, and Energy Technology categories

SUNNYVALE, Calif. — March 26, 2014 — Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS), today announced it has been recognized as a finalist in three categories in UBM Tech’s EE Times and EDN Annual Creativity in Electronics (ACE) Awards. Highlighting the finalist honors, Rambus CEO, Dr. Ronald Black has been named as a finalist for Executive of the Year for his significant achievements in executive leadership.

Rambus has also been named a finalist for its R+™ LPDDR3 offering in the Ultimate Products-Logic/Interface/Memory awards category. The R+ LPDDR3 memory architecture solution improves power consumption and performance in mobile devices. The architecture is fully compatible with industry standards allowing customers to improve and differentiate their products in a cost-effective manner with improved time-to-market. The R+ LPDDR3 architecture includes both a controller and a DRAM interface and can reduce active memory system power by up to 25% supporting data rates of up to 2400 megabits per second (Mbps) with a roadmap to 3200 Mbps.

“We are honored for the recognition of the hard work of our team, not only improving the management and operations of Rambus as a company, but also in building platforms and solutions that address the needs of our customers and partners,” said Jerome Nadel, chief marketing officer at Rambus. “This acknowledgement reinforces the great strides we have made – from the top down – enhancing the company’s ability to conceive, develop, and deliver relevant technologies and products.”

Finally, the Rambus A19 LED bulb has been named a finalist in the Energy Technology Award category. This revolutionary bulb delivers the light output of a traditional lamp with the energy efficiency, durability and reliability of advanced LED solutions.

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.

About UBM Tech

UBM Tech is a global media business that brings together the world’s technology communities through live events, online properties and custom services. UBM Tech’s community-focused approach provides its users and clients with expertly curated research, education, training, community advocacy, user-generated content and peer-to-peer engagement opportunities that serve the Electronics, Security, Enterprise IT and Communications, Network Infrastructure and Applications, Game and App Developers, and Tech Marketing communities. UBM Tech’s brands include Black Hat, DesignCon, EE Times, Enterprise Connect, Game Developers Conference (GDC), HDI, InformationWeek, and Interop. Create, a UBM Tech full range marketing services division, includes custom events, content marketing solutions, community development and demand generation programs based on its content and technology market expertise. UBM Tech is a part of UBM (UBM.L), a global provider of media and information services with a market capitalization of more than $2.5 billion. For more information, go to tech.ubm.com.

About Rambus

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 and Nanya Sign Patent License Agreement

Settles all outstanding disputes and creates opportunities for collaborative engagements

SUNNYVALE, CALIF. and TAOYUAN, TAIWAN — March 23, 2014 — Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ:RMBS), the innovative technology solutions company, and Nanya Technology Corporation, the industry leading pure-play consumer memory company, today announced they have signed a broad five-year patent license agreement. This agreement allows for the use of certain high-performance, low-power patented innovations developed by Rambus in Nanya DRAM products and enables future technology collaboration. Under this agreement, Rambus and Nanya have settled all outstanding claims, providing Nanya with access to certain memory-related Rambus innovations through the second quarter of 2018. Other terms of the agreement are confidential.

“This milestone agreement with Nanya marks a new era at Rambus where we have no outstanding litigation and can focus 100 percent on working closely with customers to solve technology challenges,” said Dr. Ron Black, president and chief executive officer of Rambus. “The same inventiveness and entrepreneurialism that drove our technology contributions to modern memory architectures and into the market are being applied to new technology challenges in memory and interface, security, and the Internet of Things architecture and design. This is an exciting time to be at Rambus.”

“We are pleased to put this matter behind us and explore mutually beneficial engagement opportunities to improve our products with Rambus technologies,” said Charles Kau, president of Nanya.

The licensing agreement with Nanya not only enables the use of certain Rambus memory-related innovations for a period of five years, but also opens the door for the two companies to collaborate on memory and interface technologies, which are critical to meeting the emerging power and performance requirements of device-driven markets like mobile and cloud.

About Rambus Inc.

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.

About Nanya Technology Corporation

Nanya Technology Corporation, a member of the Formosa Plastics Group, is the industry leading pure-play consumer memory company, focusing on research and development, design, manufacturing, and sales of consumer and low power DRAM products. Nanya plans to enlarge market share in the high value-added DRAM market segment. NTC’s common stock is traded on the Taiwan Stock Exchange Corporation (TWSE) under the 2408 symbol. The company currently owns a 300mm fabrication facility in Taiwan and started its 30nm stack process technology mass production in 2012. The company also has a 300mm joint venture, Inotera Memories, Inc., which operates two 300mm fabrication facilities in Taiwan. Further information is available atnanya.com.

Media Alert – Rambus to Showcase Key Innovations at DesignCon 2013

First Demonstration of Rambus’ R+ Enhanced Industry Standards Platform and 3D IC Interposers Technology

SANTA CLARA, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES – 01/29/2013

Who: Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS)
Where: DesignCon 2013
Santa Clara Convention Center – Booth #301
Santa Clara, CA
When: January 28 – 31, 2013

At DesignCon 2013, Rambus will unveil the innovative R+ enhanced industry standards platform. R+ offers the commercial benefits of industry-standard memory and chip-to-chip interfaces while enabling customers to differentiate products through specialized solutions. Additionally, Rambus will showcase innovations in 3D IC interposer technology. Rambus will be at booth #301, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA.

Engineers from Rambus will also be presenting six technical papers on topics including: mixed signal designs, 3D interposers, memory controllers and 3D DRAM, high speed coded differential signaling, high-speed parallel buses and more. (see RAMBUS TO PRESENT SIX PAPERS AT DESIGNCON 2013).

Demonstrations:

Extending Main Memory Beyond DDR4 – An R+ Technology
The demonstration showcases technologies that can extend main memory beyond DDR4. With data rates of up to 6.4Gbps in a multi-rank, multi-DIMM system, this high-performance, high-capacity technology simplifies the system design and significantly reduces the overall system power requirements.

R+ DDR3 Memory Interface Solution
This demonstration of a high-performance, low-cost DDR3 memory controller interface solution is tailored for consumer electronics. The solution demonstrates operation in working silicon at a data rate of 2133 megatransfers per second (MT/s) in a low-cost wire bond package. The solution is design to improve power efficiency and reduce risk in a cost-effective implementation.

R+ DDR3/GDDR5 Multi-Modal Interface Technology
This R+ demonstration showcases FlexMode™ technology, a low-risk, multi-modal memory interface that can be implemented in a single SoC package design with no additional pins. This system demonstration highlights compatibility to single-ended memory architectures, including GDDR5 at 6 gigabits per second (Gbps) and DDR3 at 1600MT/s.

3D IC Memory Technology
This technology is one of the latest innovations from Rambus Labs. The demo will highlight future and potential capabilities and showcase a high-performance, low-power 3D memory system using a double-sided IC package.

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 Introduces R+™ LPDDR3 Memory Architecture Solution

Fully compatible with industry standards, the R+™ LPDDR3 solution offers significantly improved power and performance

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES – 01/28/2013 – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), the innovative technology solutions company that brings invention to market, today announced its first LPDDR3 offering targeted at the mobile industry. In the Rambus R+ solution set, the R+ LPDDR3 memory architecture is fully compatible with industry standards while providing improved power and performance. This allows customers to differentiate their products in a cost-effective manner with improved time-to-market. Further helping improve design and development cycles, the R+ LPDDR3 is also available with Rambus’ collaborative design and integration services.

The R+ LPDDR3 architecture includes both a controller and a DRAM interface and can reduce active memory system power by up to 25% and supports data rates of up to 3200 megabits per second (Mbps), which is double the performance of existing LPDDR3 technologies. These improvements to power efficiency and performance enable longer battery life and enhanced mobile device functionality for streaming HD video, gaming and data-intensive apps.

“Each generation of mobile devices demands even higher performance with lower power. The R+ LPDDR3 technology enables the mobile market to use our controller and DRAM solutions to provide unprecedented levels of performance, with a significant power savings,” said Kevin Donnelly, senior vice president and general manager of the Memory and Interface Division at Rambus. “Since this technology is a part of our R+ platform, beyond the improvements in power and performance, we’re also maintaining compatibility with today’s standards to ensure our customers have all the benefits of the Rambus’ superior technology with reduced adoption risk.”

The seed to the improved power and performance offered by the R+ LPDDR3 architecture is a low-swing implementation of the Rambus Near Ground Signaling technology. Essentially, this single-ended, ground-terminated signaling technology allows devices to achieve higher data rates with significantly reduced IO power. The R+ LPDDR3 architecture is built from ground up to be backward compatible with LPDDR3 supporting same protocol, power states and existing package definitions and system environments.

Additional key features of the R+ LPDDR3 include:

  • 1600 to 3200Mbps data rates
  • Multi-modal support for LPDDR2, LPDDR3 and R+ LPDDR3
  • DFI 3.1 and JEDEC LPDDR3 standards compliant
  • Supports package-on-package and discrete packaging types
  • Includes LabStation™ software environment for bring-up, characterization, and validation in end-user application
  • Silicon proven design in GLOBALFOUNDRIES 28nm-SLP process

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 Introduces R+™ Enhanced Standard Memory and Interface Solutions

Delivering the benefits of industry standards while enabling customers to differentiate

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES – 01/28/2013 – Rambus Inc. (NASDAQ: RMBS), the innovative technology solutions company that brings invention to market, today introduced the Rambus R+™ family of enhanced standard solutions, specifically designed for the memory and interface market. Fully compatible with industry standards, R+ solutions offer compelling benefits such as improved power efficiency and performance. The R+ family allows customers to differentiate their products in a cost-effective manner with improved time-to-market. Rambus solutions are also available with collaborative design and integration services to optimize design and development cycles.

“The rapidly increasing demands of media-rich mobile devices and cloud-based services often outpace current memory and interface standard offerings,” said Kevin Donnelly, senior vice president and general manager of the Memory and Interface Division at Rambus. “The R+ solutions are designed to satisfy these demands by providing a significant improvement in power and performance while maintaining compatibility with today’s industry standards. This approach builds on our proven track record in standards-compliant interfaces while helping our customers to differentiate their products and get to market quickly.”

The initial development focus for the R+ family is on memory and interface solutions for mobile and server applications, including dynamic and non-volatile memories and chip-to-chip interfaces.

The first Rambus R+ LPDDR3 solution is R+ LPDDR3. The R+ LPDDR3 architecture, which includes both a controller and a DRAM interface, can reduce memory system power consumption by up to 25%, enabling significantly increased battery life for mobile devices. In addition, the R+ LPDDR3 architecture supports data rates up to 3200 megabits per second (Mbps), double the performance of existing LPDDR3 technologies. This performance benefit translates to improved high-end smart phone and tablet functionality such as gaming and HD video streaming, as well as improved battery life.

For additional information on the Rambus R+ family of enhanced standard solutions visit www.rambus.com/rplus. For additional information on the Rambus R+ LPDDR3, visit www.rambus.com/lppdr3.

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 Patent License Agreement with Toshiba

SUNNYVALE, CALIFORNIA, UNITED STATES – 03/15/2011 – Rambus Inc. (Nasdaq:RMBS), one of the world’s premier technology licensing companies, announced today it has renewed its patent license agreement with Toshiba Corporation. This five year agreement covers Toshiba’s products with DRAM memory controllers for SDR, DDR, DDR2, DDR3, and other DRAM devices. Rambus will receive royalty payments based on the shipment of these memory controllers.

“Toshiba is a recognized leader of the global semiconductor industry, committed to providing its customers with state-of-the-art solutions,” said Sharon Holt, senior vice president and general manager of the Semiconductor Business Group at Rambus. “We are very pleased to continue our long and valuable relationship with Toshiba, who soon after our founding became Rambus’ first licensee.”

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 enriching the end-user experience of electronic systems. Rambus’ patented innovations and breakthrough technologies 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.

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