do we know any more about this? any guesses re royalties? could high speed networks be a sleeper for rambus? i noticed a coupla weeks ago rmbs had an ad for an engineer to work with the telecom industry.
02/10/99, 11:39 a.m. EDT)
MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — Rambus Inc. has licensed its high-speed
memory interface technology to SwitchCore Corp., a Swedish company
that is developing a high-end, Layer 3-based switching chip for Fast
Ethernet and 1-Gbit/second networks.
SwitchCore is the second switch-chip maker to endorse the Rambus
technology, following Texas Instruments Inc.'s recent announcement of a
switching chip based on Rambus' memory technology.
Other LAN-switch chip makers have yet to endorse the Rambus
technology. Instead, their products support SDRAMs, in part due to the
high cost of using the Rambus technology, analysts said.
SwitchCore will use Rambus' 800-MHz memory-interface architecture in its
new Layer 3-based switching chip. The chip, to be shipped by year's end, is
said to be a 10/100-Mbit/s, single-chip solution with 16 uplinks to 1-Gbit/s
Ethernet networks.Targeted for high-end applications, Layer 3 switches
route data from one address to another over various protocols, including
AppleTalk, Internet Protocol, IPX, SNA and others. |
