This is from the May 14th prospectus. Bear in mind that just in the past two weeks some of their biggest deals have been cut. This companies revenues and industry acceptance have been nothing short of phenomenal. Read on:
These areas
accounted for the sale of approximately $13,000, $11 million and $447 million
of Rambus ICs by Rambus licensees in calendar 1994, 1995 and 1996,
respectively. Although period-to-period changes in the Company's revenues are
dependent upon numerous factors other than changes in sales of Rambus ICs, the
Company believes that increases in sales of Rambus ICs are an indication of the
level of market acceptance of the Company's technology to date. Systems
companies utilizing Rambus technology in these multimedia markets include
Nintendo, Silicon Graphics, Chromatic Research and Creative Labs. The Company's
licensees include Cirrus Logic, Hitachi, Hyundai Electronics, IBM, LG Semicon,
LSI Logic, Micron Technology, Mitsubishi, NEC, Oki Electric Industry, Samsung
Electronics, SGS-THOMSON and Toshiba, which in the aggregate accounted for
approximately 83% of the Company's revenues in the first half of fiscal 1997.
Other applications currently being developed for Rambus technology include
multifunction peripheral controllers for combination fax/copier/scanner/laser
printer devices, and networking equipment such as high-speed ethernet switches.
In addition, the Company and Intel Corporation have entered into a development
and license agreement and are working together to develop an extension of the
Rambus interface technology optimized for the PC main memory market segment.
Recent business deals:
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Jul
23
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Gateway 2000 Ships Rambus Technology as Standard Feature
Wed
Jul
23
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Micron Electronics Ships High
Mon
Jul
21
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Rambus to License Technology to Texas Instruments
Mon
Jul
21
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Texas Instruments LicensesTechnology from Rambus Inc. |
